Words the Bible translates as light
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 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
- orאוֹרphysical light in every form: the brightness of day, dawn, the sun, moon and stars, lightning, and lamplight
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- light as a picture of life, rescue, favor, and guidance: the brightness that means things are well
- kaiōκαίωto burn: to set something alight, or to be alight, whether as a lamp that gives light or a fire that takes hold of what it touches.
- nerנֵרlamp: a small oil-burning lamp, and by extension the light of a life or a household that can shine or be snuffed out
- haptōἅπτωto reach out and lay hold of a person or thing: purposeful physical contact, not an accidental brush
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- to kindle: to set a lamp or fire alight
- orאוֹרto shine or give light: for light to break out, or for something to send light out onto what was dark
- 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
- nogahנֹגַהּbrightness: the gleaming radiance a source throws off, whether from fire, the sun and stars, or the presence of God
- qalקַלfast-moving: swift, fleet, able to cover ground in a hurry
- phōstērφωστήρlightnot studied yet
- phōtismosφωτισμόςlightnot studied yet
- elaphrosἐλαφρόςlightnot studied yet
- orahאוֹרָהlightnot studied yet
- neharahנְהָרָהdaylight: the light that beams out over a day, set directly against darkness
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