2001 Translation

PHŌS, phōs

Sounds Like: FOHSS

Translations: light, a light, fire

From the root: ΦΩΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to light, whether literal illumination, or metaphorically, as in truth, knowledge, or spiritual enlightenment. It can also refer to a source of light, like a lamp or a star, or even fire. It is often used in contrast to darkness.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G5457 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 1:8, 5:6, 5:7, 5:8, 10:5, 104:8

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 3:4, 14:7, 14:8

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:6, 1:38, 2:38, 8:15, 9:16, 9:28, 10:14, 10:35, 10:45, 11:9, 11:10, 11:11, 11:13, 11:14, 11:20, 11:21

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:12, 36:2, 59:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 1:1k, 8:16, 10:3c
• Tobit — 3:17, 5:10, 10:5, 11:13, 13:13, 14:10
• Psalms — 4:7, 35:10, 36:6, 37:11, 42:3, 48:20, 96:11, 103:2, 111:4, 118:105, 138:12, 148:3
• Proverbs — 6:23, 13:9, 20:27
• Ecclesiastes — 11:7, 12:2
• Job — 3:16, 3:20, 12:22, 12:25, 17:12, 18:5, 18:6, 22:11, 24:16, 28:11, 29:24, 33:28, 36:32, 37:3, 37:11, 37:15, 37:21, 38:15, 38:19
• Wisdom — 5:6, 18:1
• Sirach — 22:11, 24:27, 32:16, 33:7, 50:29
• Isaiah — 5:20, 9:1, 10:17, 13:10, 18:4, 26:9, 30:26, 42:6, 42:16, 45:7, 49:6, 50:10, 51:4, 51:5, 53:11, 58:8, 58:10, 59:9, 60:1, 60:19, 60:20, 62:1
• Jeremiah — 10:13, 13:16, 25:10, 28:16, 38:36
• Habakkuk — 3:4, 3:11
• Zechariah — 14:6, 14:7
• Matthew — 4:16, 5:14, 5:16, 6:23, 17:2
• Mark — 14:54
• Luke — 2:32, 8:16, 11:33, 11:35, 22:56
• John — 1:4, 1:5, 1:8, 1:9, 3:19, 3:20, 3:21, 8:12, 9:5, 11:9, 11:10, 12:35, 12:36, 12:46
• Acts of the Apostles — 9:3, 12:7, 13:47, 22:6, 22:9, 26:13, 26:18, 26:23
• Romans — 2:19
• 2 Corinthians — 4:6
• Ephesians — 5:8, 5:14
• 1 Timothy — 6:16
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• 1 John — 1:5, 2:8
• Revelation — 18:23
• Epistle of Barnabas — 3:4, 14:7, 14:8, 14:9

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 6:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 19:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:199, 23:192
• Book Two — 23:192

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:27, 1:28
• Book 10 — 11:237
• Book 11 — 3:50

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:134, 8:18
• Book Six — 5:20

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 11:3, 11:4, 13:7, 15:5, 15:6, 17:2, 22:2, 26:2, 65:4, 65:7, 113:5, 121:4, 122:3, 128:3, 128:4, 133:4

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:6

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:4

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 6:13

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:3, 1:4, 1:5
• Exodus — 10:23, 27:20
• Leviticus — 24:2
• Esther — 1:1, 8:16, 10:3
• Tobit — 3:17, 5:10, 10:5, 10:5, 11:8, 11:14, 13:11, 14:10
• 3 Maccabees — 6:7
• Psalms — 4:7, 35:10, 36:6, 37:11, 42:3, 48:20, 96:11, 103:2, 111:4, 118:105, 138:12, 148:3
• Odes — 4:9, 6:4, 6:11, 10:72, 12:32, 14:45
• Proverbs — 6:23, 13:9, 20:21
• Ecclesiastes — 11:7, 12:2
• Job — 3:16, 3:20, 12:22, 12:25, 17:12, 18:5, 18:6, 22:11, 24:16, 28:11, 29:24, 33:28, 36:32, 37:3, 37:11, 37:15, 37:21, 38:15, 38:19
• Wisdom — 5:6, 18:1, 18:4
• Sirach — 22:11, 24:27, 35:16, 36:7, 50:29
• Isaiah — 5:20, 9:2, 10:17, 13:10, 18:4, 26:9, 30:26, 42:16, 45:7, 49:6, 50:10, 51:4, 51:5, 53:11, 58:8, 58:10, 59:9, 60:1, 60:19, 60:20, 62:1
• Jeremiah — 10:13, 13:16, 25:10, 28:16, 38:36
• Lamentations — 3:2
• Baruch — 3:14, 3:20, 3:33
• Ezekiel — 32:7, 32:8, 42:7, 42:10, 42:12
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:22, 3:72
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:72, 10:5
• Hosea — 6:5, 10:12
• Amos — 5:18, 5:20, 8:9
• Micah — 7:9
• Habakkuk — 3:4, 3:11
• Zephaniah — 3:5
• Zechariah — 14:6, 14:7
• Enoch — 1:8, 5:6, 5:7, 5:8, 10:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:16, 5:14, 5:16, 6:23, 17:2
• Mark — 14:54
• Luke — 2:32, 8:16, 11:35, 22:56
• John — 1:4, 1:5, 1:8, 1:9, 3:19, 3:20, 3:21, 8:12, 9:5, 11:9, 11:10, 12:35, 12:36, 12:46
• Acts — 9:3, 12:7, 13:47, 22:6, 22:9, 26:13, 26:18, 26:23
• Romans — 2:19
• 2 Corinthians — 4:6
• Ephesians — 5:8, 5:13
• 1 Timothy — 6:16
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• 1 John — 1:5, 2:8
• Revelation — 18:23

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
• 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
• ΦΩΤΩΝ — of lights, of the lights

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