Greek noun (masculine) · G3088
λύχνος
lychnoslookh'-nos
lamp
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lýchnos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3088is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3088
a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: candle, light.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lychnos is rendered "lamp". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Matthew 5:15λύχνον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lamp6
- a lamp4
- lamps1
- of a lamp1
- of lamp1
- to a lamp1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λυχνία | lychnia | lampstand | Uses12 |
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- λύχνος6
- λύχνον4
- λύχνου2
- λύχνοι1
- λύχνῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular6N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular4N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
Matthew
two uses
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
- λύχνονluchnonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a lamp
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
Mark
one use
Jesus also said to them, “Does anyone bring in a lamp to put it under a basket or under a bed? Doesn’t he set it on a stand?
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
Luke
six uses
No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.
- λύχνονluchnonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a lamp
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.
- λύχνονluchnonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a lamp
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- λύχνοιluchnoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: lamps
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
- λύχνονluchnonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a lamp
John
one use
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
2 Peter
one use
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
- λύχνῳluchnonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: to a lamp
Revelation
three uses
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
- λύχνουluchnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of lamp
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
- λύχνοςluchnosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lamp
There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
- λύχνουluchnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of a lamp
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.