noun · masculine
fanos
Strong’sG5322
a torch, lantern
stem fan-once in the New Testament1 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.
* φανός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< φαίνω),
SYN.: v.s. λαμπάς
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5322 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfan-os'
a lightener, i.e. light; lantern
Fromfrom G5316;
King Jameslantern.
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
torch, Refs 5th c.BC+; ποῖος φ. τοιοῦτος οἷος ὁ ἥλιο; Refs 2nd c.AD+; distinguished from λύχνος, Refs 4th c.BC+; but probably ={λύχνος} in Refs 2nd c.BC+; μετὰ φανῶν καὶ λαμπάδων NT+2nd c.AD+: the form πᾱνός (probably a different word) is found in Refs 5th c.BC+
II φ. ὑελοῦς glass cover,Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 a form of still, Zos.Alch.p.224 Refs 5th 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 | fanos | fanois |
| object accusative | fanon | fanoin |
| direct address vocative | fanor | fanoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fanou | fanoiu1×φανῶν |
| to, for dative | fano | fanoi |
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
fano 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
fanoiu“lanterns”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
John 18:3… toiu Farisaioiu hupēretoin erchotō ekei meta fanoiu kai lampadaiu kai hopleiu.… They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.