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Words
φωστήρ G5458
- Home gloss
- light-giver
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- light / luminary
- Note
- The thing that gives light (Phil 2:15 "you shine as light-givers"). Agrees with the Masoretic version's "light-giver" for מָאוֹר, where the two versions meet
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (4)
- 1:14 And God said, "Let light-givers come to be in the firmament of the sky for shining on the land, and to rule the day and the night, and to part between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for kairoi and for days and for twelvemonths;
- 1:16 And God made the two great light-givers—the great light-giver for the rule of the day, and the lesser light-giver for the rule of the night—and the stars.
- 1:16 And God made the two great light-givers—the great light-giver for the rule of the day, and the lesser light-giver for the rule of the night—and the stars.
- 1:16 And God made the two great light-givers—the great light-giver for the rule of the day, and the lesser light-giver for the rule of the night—and the stars.