fōsforos

Strong’sG5459

light-bearing, radiant, the morning-star

stem fōsfor-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

* φωσ-φόρος, -ον

(< φῶς, φέρω),

light-bringing; as subst., ὁ φ., the morning star (Plat., al.; cf. ἐωσφόρος, Is 14:12, Jb 3:9, Ps 110:3): metaph., II Pe 1:19 (v. Mayor, in l.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5459 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfoce-for'-os

light-bearing ("phosphorus"), i.e. (specially), the morning-star (figuratively)

Fromfrom G5457 and G5342;

King Jamesday star.

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

φωσφόρ-ος
(paroxytone), ον, poetry φαοσφόρος Lyric poetry Adesp. in Refs, φαεσφόρος Refs 3rd c.BC+:— bringing or giving light, Ἕως Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. ἀστήρ, of Dionysus at the mysteries, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἴγλη, Ἦμαρ, Refs 5th c.AD+
b substantive, ὁ φ. (i.e. ἀστήρ), the light-bringer, i.e. the morning-star, a name specially given to the planet Venus, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of the eye, φ. ὄμματα Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. κόραι, of the Cyclops, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b name of an eye-salve, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II torch-bearing, epithet of certain deities, especially of Hecate, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. θεά (i.e. Ἄρτεμις) Refs 5th c.BC+; of Hephaestus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III φωσφόρος, ἡ, torch-bearer, title of a priestess, Κλεοπάτρας θεᾶς Refs 2nd 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.

morning star1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	fōsforos1×φωσφόρος	fōsforas	fōsforem	fōsforois	fōsforais	fōsforeim
object accusative	fōsforon	fōsforan		fōsforoin	fōsforain
direct address vocative	fōsforor	fōsforar		fōsforoir	fōsforair
of, belonging to genitive	fōsforou	fōsforau	fōsforeu	fōsforoiu	fōsforaiu	fōsforeiu
to, for dative	fōsforo	fōsfora	fōsfore	fōsforoi	fōsforai	fōsforei

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

fōsforstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

fōsfor 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

fōsforos“morning star”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Peter 1:19… topo, heōs hou hēmeras diaugazateia kai fōsforos anatellateia en tai kardiai vu;… until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.