φωσφόρος
phōsphóros · G5459 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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morning star
A light-producing heavenly body, probably the morning star (a planet), but possibly the sun
Examples2 Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνατέλλωto come up 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀστήρ astḗr · G792 · star, planet, morning star
- Both terms denote celestial bodies, with particular reference to the morning star in contexts of eschatological hope and divine manifestation. The terms appear in complementary New Testament passages where the morning star serves as a christological figure, though φωσφόρος occurs only once while ἀστήρ has broader attestation across both literal astronomical references and figurative christological usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Morning star1.32
- 2 Peter 1:19 urges attention to the prophetic word “until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts”.
Word family 46 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φωσφορον (φῶς and φέρω), light-bringing, giving light (Aristophanes, Euripides, Plato,…
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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