tuvpo" tuvpo", tupou, oJ (tuvptw), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down;1. the mark of a stroke or blow; print: tw'n h{lwn, a,25b (where L T Tr marginal reading tovpon) (Athen. 13, p. 585 c. touv" tuvpou" tw'n plhgw'n ijdou'sa).2. a figure formed by a blow or impression; hence, universally, a figure, image: of the images of the gods, (; Josephus, Antiquities 1, 19, 11; 15, 9, 5). (Cf. kuvrioi tuvpo" qeou', the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 7; `Teaching' 4, 11.)3. form: didach'", i. e. the teaching which embodies the sum and substance of religion and represents it to the mind, ; equivalent to manner of writing, the contents and form of a letter, ().4. an example; a. in the technical sense, viz. the pattern in conformity to which a thing must be made: ; ,(). b. in an ethical sense, a dissuasive example, pattern of warning: plural of ruinous events which serve as admonitions or warnings to others, , R G; an example to be imitated: of men worthy of imitation, ; with a genitive of the person to whom the example is offered, ; ; tuvpon eJautovn didovnai tivni, ; genevsqai tuvpon (tuvpou", R L marginal reading WH marginal reading; cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 27, 1 note) tivni, ; parevcesqai eJautovn tuvpon kalw'n e[rgwn, to show oneself an example of good works, . g. in a doctrinal sense, a type, i. e. a person or thing prefiguring a future (Messianic) person or thing: in this sense Adam is called tuvpo" tou' mevllonto" namely, !Adavm, i. e. of Jesus Christ, each of the two having exercised a pre-eminent influence upon the human race (the former destructive, the latter saving), .*