φωτισμός
phōtismós · G5462 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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truth, revealed truth
(A figurative extension of meaning of φωτισμός ‘light,’ not occurring in the NT) That which has been revealed as true
Examples2 Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they will not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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to make known, to make plain, to reveal, to bring to the light, to disclose, revelation
To cause something to be fully known by revealing clearly and in some detail
Examples2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
How it’s used In 3 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- γνῶσιςknowledge 1
- εὐαγγέλιονthe gospel, the good news 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐγάζωto cause to be seen 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 2
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
- ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis · G602 · to reveal, to disclose, to make fully known
- A revealing or unveiling that brings hidden things to light; near-synonym for φωτισμός in the sense of making known what was previously obscure, though ἀποκάλυψις emphasizes the unveiling act while φωτισμός emphasizes the illuminating result
Contrasting words 1 word
- σκότος skótos · G4655 · darkness, evil world, realm of evil
- Darkness as a state or condition, the natural lexical opposite of illumination; where φωτισμός brings light, σκότος represents the absence of light
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To make known, to make plain, to reveal, to bring to the light, to disclose, revelation28.36
- 2 Corinthians 4:4 says the god of this world has blinded unbelievers “so that they will not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ”.
- Truth, revealed truth72.3
- 2 Corinthians 4:6 says God “has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ”.
Word family 46 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φωτισμου, ὁ (φωτίζω); a. the act of enlightening, illumination: πρός φωτισμόν τῆς…
a. the act of enlightening, illumination: πρός φωτισμόν τῆς γνώσεως, equivalent to πρός τό φωτίζειν τήν γνῶσιν, that by teaching we may bring to light etc. 2 Cor 4:6 (on which passage, see πρόσωπον, 1 a. sub at the end, p. 551{b} top).
b. brightness, bright light (ἐξ ἡλίου, Sextus Empiricus, p. 522, 9; ἀπό σελήνης, Plutarch (de fac. in orb. lun. § 16, 13), p. 929 d. (ibid., § 18, 4, p. 931 a.); the Sept. for אור, Ps 26:1; Ps 43:4; Ps 77:14; Job 3:9; for מָאור, Ps 89:8): εἰς τό μή αὐγάσαι (καταυγασαι, L marginal reading Tr marginal reading) τόν φωτισμόν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, that the brightness of the gospel might not shine forth (R. V. dawn (upon them)), i. e. (dropping the figure) that the enlightening truth of the gospel might not be manifest or be apprehended, 2 Cor 4:4.
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
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