λαμπρότης
lamprótēs · G2987 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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brightness, shining, radiance
The state of brightness or shining
ExamplesActs 26:13 at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying with me.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἥλιοςthe sun 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπέρfor 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- δόξα dóxa · G1391 · glory, splendor, brightness
- Both terms converge in the literal sense of radiance or brightness. δόξα has a much broader range of abstract meanings (honor, praise, divine majesty), but its literal sense of physical brilliance overlaps with λαμπρότης (lamprótēs, G2987).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Brightness, shining, radiance14.49
- λαμπρότης names brightness or radiance. Acts 26:13 has Paul recounting his Damascus road vision, “I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying with me,” the λαμπρότητα naming this radiance surpassing the sun's own brightness.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λαμπρότητος, ἡ, brightness, brilliancy: τοῦ ἡλίου, Acts 26:13. (From Herodotus…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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