2001 Translation

PHŌTOS, phōtos

Sounds Like: FOH-tos

Translations: of light, of a light

From the root: ΦΩΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is the genitive singular form of the noun 'light'. It is used to indicate possession or origin, often translated as 'of light' or 'belonging to light'. For example, 'the source of light'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5457 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 18:1, 19:1, 19:12

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:16, 10:14, 10:35, 11:21, 12:9

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 1:21
• Ecclesiastes — 2:13
• Job — 18:18, 26:10
• Wisdom — 7:10, 7:26, 16:28, 18:4
• Isaiah — 4:5
• Luke — 16:8
• John — 1:7, 1:8, 12:36
• Acts of the Apostles — 22:11
• Romans — 13:12
• 2 Corinthians — 11:14
• Ephesians — 5:8, 5:9, 5:13
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:5
• Revelation — 21:24, 22:5
• Epistle of Barnabas — 18:1, 19:1

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 2:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:28

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 27:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 7:3, 17:3, 131:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:4, 1:18
• Exodus — 35:16, 39:17
• Numbers — 4:16
• 1 Samuel — 25:34, 25:36
• 2 Samuel — 17:22
• 2 Kings — 7:9
• 2 Chronicles — 4:20
• Tobit — 14:10
• 1 Maccabees — 1:21
• 2 Maccabees — 1:32
• Ecclesiastes — 2:13
• Job — 18:18, 26:10
• Wisdom — 7:10, 7:26, 16:28, 18:4
• Isaiah — 4:5
• Baruch — 4:2
• Ezekiel — 41:11
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 16:8
• John — 1:7, 1:8, 12:36
• Acts — 22:11
• Romans — 13:12
• 2 Corinthians — 11:14
• Ephesians — 5:8, 5:9, 5:13
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:5
• Revelation — 21:24, 22:5

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
• ΦΩΤΑ — lights, lamps, fires
• 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
• ΦΩΤΩΝ — of lights, of the lights

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