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ἀστράπτω

astráptō · G797 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam, to flash

    To give off or to reflect a very bright light

    Examples

    Luke 17:24 “For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.

    Luke 24:4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in gleaming clothing;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
στίλβω stílbō · G4744 · to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam
Both verbs denote brilliant light phenomena — intense gleaming or flashing. The target's sense is more specifically associated with lightning-like flashes, while στίλβω denotes general intense radiance, but both denote intense luminous emission within the same narrow semantic field.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To glisten, to dazzle, to gleam, to flash14.47
Used of a sudden brilliant flash, as of the lightning that flashes in Luke 17:24 and the dazzling clothing of the two men at the tomb in Luke 24:4.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀστράπτωastráptō · G797ἀστραπή astrapḗ · G796 · lightning, bright beam · 9×περιαστράπτω periastráptō · G4015 · to shine brightly around, to flash around · 2×ἐξαστράπτω exastráptō · G1823 · to glisten, to dazzle, to gleam · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (later form στράπτω, see ἀσπάζομαι at the beginning (probably allied with ἀστήρ which…
(later form στράπτω, see ἀσπάζομαι at the beginning (probably allied with ἀστήρ which see)); to lighten (Homer, Iliad 9, 237; 17, 595, and often in Attic): Lk 17:24. of dazzling objects: ἐσθής (R G ἐσθησεις), Lk 24:4 (and very often in Greek writings from Sophocles Oed. Col. 1067; Euripides, Phoen. 111, down). (Compare: ἐξαστράπτω, περιαστράπτω.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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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