noun · feminine
astrapas
Strong’sG796
a flash of lightning, brightness, luster
stem astrap-9 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀστραπή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX for בָּרָק;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G796 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidas-trap-ay'
lightning; by analogy, glare
Fromfrom G797;
King Jameslightning, bright shining.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={ἀστεροπή},{στεροπή},fiash of lightning, lightning, βροντὴ καὶ ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+; personified, as subject of painting, Refs 1st c.AD+: frequently in plural, lightnings, τὰς ἀ. τε καὶ κεραυνίους βολάςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 light of a lamp, NT+4th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, ἀστραπήν τιν᾽ ὀμμάτων flashing of the eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκτυφλοῦν τιν᾽ ἀστραπὴ [εἰμί] Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | astrapas3×ἀστραπὴ | astrapais4×ἀστραπαὶ |
| object accusative | astrapan1×ἀστραπὴν | astrapain |
| direct address vocative | astrapar | astrapair |
| of, belonging to genitive | astrapau | astrapaiu |
| to, for dative | astrapa1×ἀστραπῇ | astrapai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
astrapa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
astrapas“lightning”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 24:27hōsper gar tas astrapas exerchotō apo anatolaiu kai fanotō heōs …For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes …
Matthew 28:3ate de tas eideas autou hōs astrapas kai tem endumem autou leukem hōs …His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as …
Luke 17:24hōsper gar tas astrapas astraptarōntas ek tau hupo ton ouranon …For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky …
astrapan“lightning”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 10:18… de autoi; Theōrame ton Satanon hōs astrapan ek tou ouranou piptaranton.… them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
astrapa“rays”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 11:36“rays”… holem hōs hotan tos luchnos ta astrapa fōtizateiō sin.… full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining …
astrapais“flashes of lightning”subjectnominative plural4×
Revelation 4:5kai ek tou thronou ekporeuolō astrapais kai fōnais kai brontais; kai hepta …From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before …
Revelation 8:5… kai genela brontais kai fōnais kai astrapais kai seismos.… there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
Revelation 11:19… en to nao autou; kai genela astrapais kai fōnais kai brontais kai seismos …… in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake …
Revelation 16:18kai genela astrapais kai fōnais kai brontais, kai seismos …And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a …