Greek noun (masculine) · G5458
φωστήρ
phosterfoce-tare'
light
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: phōstḗr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5458is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5458
an illuminator, i.e. (concretely) a luminary, or (abstractly) brilliancy
The King James renders it: 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
phoster is rendered "light". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Philippians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Philippians 2:15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Philippians 2:15φωστῆρες
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Philippians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lights1
- radiance1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- φωστὴρ1
- φωστῆρες1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Philippians
one use
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- φωστῆρεςphosteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: lights
Revelation
one use
shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.
- φωστὴρphosternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: radiance
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.