- Transliteration: Stigma

- Phonetic: stig'-mah

- Definition:

1. a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. To ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or the stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotee's who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods

- Origin: "from a primary stizo (to "stick", i.e. prick)"

- TDNT entry: 17:57,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From a primary word στίζω stizō (to stick that is prick); a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership) that is (figuratively) scar of service: - mark.