2001 Translation

PHŌTA, phōta

Sounds Like: PHOH-tah

Translations: lights, lamps, fires

From the root: ΦΩΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to sources of illumination, such as lights, lamps, or fires. It is the plural form of the noun 'light' and is used to describe multiple instances of light or light-emitting objects.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5457 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 12:29
• Psalms — 135:7
• Jeremiah — 4:23
• Acts of the Apostles — 16:29

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 12 — 7:319, 7:325

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 12:29
• Psalms — 135:7
• Jeremiah — 4:23
• Ezekiel — 42:11

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 16:29

From the same root

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

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.

• ΠΦΩΤΟΙ — light, a light, bright, shining, luminous
• ΦΩΣ — light, a light, fire
• ΦΩΤΕΙ — to light, to a light, for a light
• ΦΩΤΕΙΝΟΤΕΡΟΣ — brighter, more luminous, more shining
• ΦΩΤΙ — to light, to a light, to a lamp, to fire, to a fire, to a torch, to a torchlight, to a day, to a daylight, to a daybreak, to a morning, to a dawn, to a revelation, to a manifestation, to a truth, to a knowledge, to a understanding, to a spiritual illumination
• ΦΩΤΙΝΟΝ — bright, full of light, luminous, a bright thing, a luminous thing
• ΦΩΤΙΝΟΣ — bright, luminous, full of light
• ΦΩΤΟΣ — of light, of a light
• ΦΩΤΩΝ — of lights, of the lights

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