2001 Translation

PHEGGOUS, pheggous

Sounds Like: FENG-gooss

Translations: of light, of brightness, of splendor

From the root: ΦΕΓΓΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to light, brightness, or splendor, often implying a radiant or shining quality. It can describe the light from the sun, moon, or other luminous sources. As a genitive form, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'of light' or 'belonging to light'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5338 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 14:308

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Samuel — 22:13, 23:4
• 2 Maccabees — 12:9
• Ezekiel — 1:28, 10:4

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΕΓΓΟΣ.

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.

• ΦΕΓ — light, brightness, splendor, a light, a brightness
• ΦΕΓʼΓΟΣ — light, brightness, a light, a brightness
• ΦΕΓΓΟΣ — light, a light, radiance, brightness

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