Words the Bible translates as lamp
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- phōsφῶςlight: visible brightness, or a thing that gives it (the sun, daylight, a fire, a lamp, a blaze of glory)
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- light as God's saving self-disclosure: the rescue, truth, and life he brings into a dark world, and the realm of those who live in it
- luchnosλύχνοςa small oil lamp: the hand-sized clay bowl, fed with olive oil through a wick, that lit an ordinary home
- nerנֵרlamp: a small oil-burning lamp, and by extension the light of a life or a household that can shine or be snuffed out
- lampasλαμπάςa burning light carried or set out to shine: chiefly a torch of open flame, and sometimes an oil lamp
- ma'orמָאוֹרa light-source: the thing that gives off light, such as a luminary in the sky or a lamp
- lappidלַפִּידa handheld torch: a kindled flame on a shaft, and the bright fiery flash it pictures
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Every English meaning beginning with L is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.