APPARITION.In RV [Note: Revised Version.] of Mat_14:26 and Mar_6:49 for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] spirit. The Gr. word (phantasma) differs from the usual word for spirit (pneuma). It occurs only in these passages.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ap-a-rish?un (ἴνδαλμα, ı́ndalma, ἐπιφάνεια, epipháneia; φάντασμα, phántasma): This word is not found in the Old Testament or New Testament canon, the King James Version or the American Standard Revised Version, but occurs twice in the Revised Version (British and American) and thrice in Apocrypha the King James Version as follows: The Wisdom of Solomon 17:3, Greek indalma, the Revised Version (British and American) ?spectral form?; 2 Macc 3:24, Greek epiphaneia, the Revised Version (British and American) ?apparition,? the Revised Version, margin ?manifestation?; 2 Macc 5:4, Greek epiphaneia, the Revised Version (British and American) ?vision,? the Revised Version, margin ?manifestation.? New Testament, Revised Version: Mat_14:26; Mar_6:49; Greek phantasma, the American Standard Revised Version ?ghost,? the King James Version ?Spirit.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Apparition
(ἐπιφανεία, 2Ma_5:4; ἴνδαλμα,
Wis_17:3; φάντασμα, Wis_17:15 [14]), the sudden appearance of a "ghost" or the spirit of a departed person (comp. Luk_24:37), or some other preternatural object. SEE SPECTRE. The belief in such occurrences has always been prevalent in the East; and among the modern Mohammedans the existence and manifestation of efreets is held an undoubted reality (Lane's Mod. Eg. 1, 344). SEE SUPERSTITION. Such a belief, however, has no sanction in the canonical Scriptures beyond the doubtful case of Saul (1Sa_28:14). SEE WITCHCRAFT. The visits of Christ to his disciples after his resurrection come under altogether a different category. SEE APPEARANCE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.