G5457 – phos – φῶς – a light
- Strong’s ID:
- G5457
- Greek Word:
- φῶς
- Transliteration:
- phōs / phos
- Pronunciation:
- foce
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 70
- Search:
- Find “phos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from an obsolete φαω phao (to shine or make manifest, especially by rays; compare G5316, G5346); luminousness (in the widest application, nat. or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative):—fire, light.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) light
1a) the light
1a1) emitted by a lamp
1a2) a heavenly light such as surrounds angels when they appear on earth
1b) anything emitting light
1b1) a star
1b2) fire because it is light and sheds light
1b3) a lamp or torch
1c) light, i.e brightness
1c1) of a lamp
2) metaphorically
2a) God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality
2b) of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it
2c) that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly
2d) reason, mind
2d1) the power of understanding especially moral and spiritual truth
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.