ἀστραπή
astrapḗ · G796 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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lightning
The flash of lightning
ExamplesMatthew 24:27 “For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 28:3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
Luke 10:18 And He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
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bright beam
Shafts or beams of light radiating from a source
ExamplesLuke 11:36 “Therefore if your whole body is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light.”
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
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 3
- ἐκπορεύομαιto go out, to come out 1
- ἐξέρχομαιto go out, to depart 1
- λάμπωto shine 1
- ἀστράπτωto glisten 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἰδέαform 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- בָּרָק bârâq · H1300 · lightning, flashing, glittering
- Hebrew בָּרָק and Greek ἀστραπή both denote lightning as a natural phenomenon, with overlapping extensions to bright, flashing, or glaring light — a direct translation equivalence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Lightning14.16
- Used literally of lightning flashing across the sky, as of the Son of Man's coming compared to lightning in Matthew 24:27 and Luke 17:24, and of Satan falling like lightning in Luke 10:18.
- Bright beam14.46
- Used of a shining beam of light more generally, as of the lamp that illuminates like a bright light in Luke 11:36.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀστραπῆς, ἡ, lightning: Lk 10:18; Lk 17:24; Mt 24:27; Mt 28:3; plural, Rev 4:5; Rev 8:5;…
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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