φωστήρ
phōstḗr · G5458 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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light, luminary, star
Any light-producing object in the sky, such as the sun, moon, and other planets and stars
ExamplesPhilippians 2:15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
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brightness, shining, radiance
The state of brightness or shining
ExamplesRevelation 21:11 having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very valuable stone, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅμοιοςlike 1
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Light, luminary, star1.27
- Philippians 2:15 urges believers to be “children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world”.
- Brightness, shining, radiance14.49
- Revelation 21:11 describes the holy city's brilliance, “like a very valuable stone, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper”.
Word family 46 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φωστηρος, ὁ (φῶς, φώσκω); 1. that which gives light, an illuminator (Vulg.luminar): of…
1. that which gives light, an illuminator (Vulg.luminar): of the stars (luminaries), Phm 2:15 (Wis. 13:2; Sir. 43:7; Gen 1:14, Gen 1:16; Heliodorus 2, 24; (Anthol. Pal. 15, 17; of sun and moon, Test xii. Patr. test. Levi 14); ecclesiastical writings.)
2. light, brightness: Rev 21:11 (Anthol. 11, 359) (others refer this to 1; cf. Trench, § xlvi.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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