The mark left by a BLOW — from typtō, to strike: the dent of a hammer, the print of the nails John's Thomas asks to see (John 20:25), and then the impression a seal or a die leaves in wax or metal, and so a MODEL to be copied or a PATTERN to be reproduced. It is the source of English 'type' and 'typography', and of 'antitype' and the whole vocabulary of typology, since Romans 5:14 calls Adam a typos of the one to come. ⚠ At 1 Thessalonians 1:7 the earliest text has it SINGULAR — the whole congregation is one impression, not a collection of individual examples — where much of the later tradition reads the plural, and the KJV follows it with 'ensamples'. → first discussed at 1 Thessalonians 1:7