ΛΥΧΝΑ, λυχνα
LYCHNA, lychna
Sounds Like: LOO-khnah
Translations: lamps, lights, a lamp, a light
From the root: ΛΥΧΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a lamp or a light, typically an oil lamp used for illumination. It is often used in a literal sense to describe a physical light source, but can also be used metaphorically to represent spiritual light, guidance, or truth. In this form, it is the nominative or accusative plural of the noun.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3088 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 3:74
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΥΧΝΟΣ.
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.
- ΛΙΧΝΟΙ — lamps, lights
- ΛΥΧΝΕΩΣ — lamp-stone, a lamp-stone, of a lamp-stone
- ΛΥΧΝΙ — of lamps, of lights, of lampstands
- ΛΥΧΝΙΩ — of lampstands, of lamps, of lights
- ΛΥΧΝΟ — lamp, light, a lamp, a light
- ΛΥΧΝΟΙ — lamps, lights
- ΛΥΧΝΟΙΣ — to lamps, to lights, to torches
- ΛΥΧΝΟΝ — lamp, a lamp, light
- ΛΥΧΝΟΣ — lamp, a lamp, light, a light
- ΛΥΧΝΟΥ — of a lamp, of a light, of a candle
- ΛΥΧΝΟΥΣ — lamps, lights
- ΛΥΧΝΩ — lamp, a lamp, light, a light
- ΛΥΧΝΩΝ — (of) lamps, (of) lights
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