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Name of God’s Son

ΦΩΤΩΝ, φωτων

PHŌTŌN, phōtōn

Sounds Like: PHOH-tohn

Translations: of lights, of the lights

From the root: ΦΩΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of 'φῶς' (phōs), meaning 'light'. It refers to multiple sources of light or the concept of light in a collective sense. In a sentence, it would indicate possession or origin, such as 'the Father of lights' or 'the source of lights'.

Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5457 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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Codex Sinaiticus
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, 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
  • ΦΩΤΟΣ — of light, of a light

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