Greek noun (feminine) · G796
ἀστραπή
astrapeas-trap-ay'
lightning
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: astrapḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G796is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G796
lightning; by analogy, glare
The King James renders it: lightning, bright shining.
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
astrape is rendered "lightning". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:27For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:27ἀστραπὴ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- flashes of lightning4
- lightning4
- shining1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- ἀστραπαὶ4
- ἀστραπὴ3
- ἀστραπῇ1
- ἀστραπὴν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural4N-NPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Matthew
two uses
For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- ἀστραπὴastrapenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: lightning
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
- ἀστραπὴastrapenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: lightning
Luke
three uses
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
- ἀστραπὴνastrapennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lightning
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.”
- ἀστραπῇastrapeanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: shining
For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.
- ἀστραπὴastrapenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: lightning
Revelation
four uses
From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
- ἀστραπαὶastrapainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: flashes of lightning
Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
- ἀστραπαὶastrapainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: flashes of lightning
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
- ἀστραπαὶastrapainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: flashes of lightning
And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.
- ἀστραπαὶastrapainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: flashes of lightning
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 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.