λαμπρῶς
lamprōs · G2988 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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luxuriously, with ostentation, showing off
Pertaining to living in ostentatious luxury
ExamplesLuke 16:19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor every day.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- πολυτελής polytelḗs · G4185 · valuable, expensive
- πολυτελῶς emphasizes the costly or expensive nature of something, while λαμπρῶς emphasizes the brilliant, showy, or ostentatious display of luxury; both can describe lavish living
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Luxuriously, with ostentation, showing off88.255
- λαμπρῶς describes living in ostentatious luxury. Luke 16:19 introduces the rich man of Jesus' parable, who “habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor every day,” the λαμπρῶς naming this daily display of extravagant, self-indulgent luxury.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, splendidly, magnificently: of sumptuous living, Lk 16:19. (From Aeschylus down.)
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
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