ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΙ, ἀστραπαι
ASTRAPAI, astrapai
Sounds Like: as-tra-PAI
Translations: lightning, flashes of lightning
From the root: ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to lightning, the bright flash of light that accompanies a thunderstorm. It is often used in a literal sense to describe atmospheric phenomena, but can also be used metaphorically to describe something that is sudden, brilliant, or striking, like a flash of light or a sudden appearance.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0796 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:50
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 5:80
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 4:63
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 19:16
- Psalms — 96:4
- Odes — 10:73
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:73
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:73
- Nahum — 2:5
- Enoch — 14:11, 14:17, 17:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΙΣ — (to) lightning, (to) a flash of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΣ — lightning, flashes of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ — lightning, a lightning flash, a flash, brightness
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗΝ — lightning, a lightning flash, a flash of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗΣ — of lightning, of a flash, of a gleam
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΩΝ — of lightning, of flashes, of lightnings
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