Word

περιλάμπω

perilámpō · G4034 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to shine around

    To illuminate an area surrounding an object

    Examples

    Luke 2:9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
περιαστράπτω periastráptō · G4015 · to shine brightly around, to flash around
Both verbs describe light radiating around a person or object. περιαστράπτω denotes a sudden flash of encompassing light, while περιλάμπω denotes a more sustained, encompassing brightness; the two describe the same basic phenomenon of surrounding radiance, differing in intensity and duration.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To shine around14.44
περιλάμπω describes a light shining around a person or place. Luke's nativity account describes the shepherds' encounter with the angel: “an angel of the Lord suddenly stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them” (Luke 2:9).
Word family 7 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist περιελαμψα; to shine around: τινα, Lk 2:9; Acts 26:13. (Diodorus, Josephus,…
: 1 aorist περιελαμψα; to shine around: τινα, Lk 2:9; Acts 26:13. (Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, others.)

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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