στίλβω
stílbō · G4744 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam, to flash
To give off or to reflect a very bright light
ExamplesMark 9:3 and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἱμάτιονclothing 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀστράπτω astráptō · G797 · to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam
- στίλβω and ἀστράπτω both denote brilliant radiance, glistening, dazzling, or flashing light. The two converge fully on describing the same phenomenon of brilliant, flashing light.
- ἐξαστράπτω exastráptō · G1823 · to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam
- Both verbs describe intense gleaming or flashing light, used interchangeably in the New Testament to depict radiant brightness, particularly of dazzling white garments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To glisten, to dazzle, to gleam, to flash14.47
- The verb describes an intense, dazzling brightness. Mark describes Jesus' transfiguration, when “His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them”—literally, gleaming so (Mark 9:3).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon to shine, glisten: of garments (as in Homer, Iliad 3, 392; 18, 596; cf. Plato, Phaedo 59,…
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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