Original Word: φωστήρ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: phóstér
Pronunciation: foce-TAIR
Phonetic Spelling: (foce-tare')
KJV: light
NASB: brilliance, lights
Word Origin: [from G5457 (φῶς - light)]

1. an illuminator
2. (concretely) a luminary
3. (abstractly) brilliancy

light.

From phos; an illuminator, i.e. (concretely) a luminary, or (abstractly) brilliancy -- light.

see GREEK phos

Word Origin
from phós
Definition
a luminary, light
NASB Translation
brilliance (1), lights (1).

STRONGS NT 5458: φωστήρ

φωστήρ, φωστηρος, ὁ (φῶς, φώσκω);

1. that which gives light, an illuminator (Vulg.luminar): of the stars (luminaries), Philippians 2:15 (Wis. 13:2; Sir. 43:7; Genesis 1:14, 16; Heliodorus 2, 24; (Anthol. Pal. 15, 17; of sun and moon, Test xii. Patr. test. Levi 14); ecclesiastical writings.)

2. light, brightness: Revelation 21:11 (Anthol. 11, 359) (others refer this to 1; cf. Trench, § xlvi.).

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