TOKEN

ISBE

to'-k'-n ('oth, usually rendered "sign" (on De 22:14 ff see the comms.)): "Sign" and "token" are virtually synonymous words and in the King James Version are used with little or no distinction (in Ex 13 , compare 13:9 and 16). If there is any difference, "token" is perhaps more concrete and palpable than "sign," but this difference cannot be stressed. The modern use of "token," however, as a "memorial of something past" found in Nu 17:10 ; Jos 2:12 . the Revised Version (British and American) has substituted sign in Ex 13:16 ; Ps 135:9 ; Isa 44:25 , and the American Standard Revised Version has "evidence" in Job 21:29 (a needlessly prosaic change). The four New Testament examples, Mr 14:44 ; Php 1:28 ; 2Th 1:5 ; 3:17 (each for a different Greek word) are self-explanatory. See SIGN . Burton Scott Easton