noun · masculine
fōstēros
Strong’sG5458
a light, brilliancy
stem fōstēr-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
φωστήρ, -ῆρος, ὁ
(< φῶς), [in LXX: Ge 1:14, 16 (מָאוֹר), Da LXX 12:3 (זֹהַר), I Es 8:79, Wi 13:2, Si 43:7 *;]
SYN.: φέγγος, φῶς
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5458 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfoce-tare'
an illuminator, i.e. (concretely) a luminary, or (abstractly) brilliancy
Fromfrom G5457;
King Jameslight.
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
that which gives light, οἱ φ. the lights of heaven, stars, LXX+4th c.BC+; οἱ δύο φ., i.e. sun and moon, NT+5th c.AD+
2 splendour, radiance, ὁ φ. αὐτῆς ὅμοιος λίθῳ τιμιωτάτῳ NT
3 metaphorically, of a king, τῷ φ. τῷ ἡμετέρῳ Refs 4th c.AD+
4 of the eyes, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II opening for light, door or window, Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | fōstēros1×φωστὴρ | fōstērois1×φωστῆρες |
| object accusative | fōstēron | fōstēroin |
| direct address vocative | fōstēror | fōstēroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fōstērou | fōstēroiu |
| to, for dative | fōstēro | fōstēroi |
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
fōstēro 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
fōstēros“radiance”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 21:11echarōntan tan doxan tou theou; tos fōstēros autau homoios litho timiotato, hōs litho …… with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel …
fōstērois“stars”subjectnominative plural1×
Philippians 2:15“stars”… kai diastreforēntau, en hoi fanovō hōs fōstērois en kosmo… a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world