adjective
fōteinas
Strong’sG5460
bright, luminous, full of light
stem fōtein-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
** φωτεινός (WH, φωτινός), ή, όν
(< φῶς), [in LXX: Si 17:31 23:19 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5460 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfo-ti-nos'
lustrous, i.e. transparent or well-illuminated (figuratively)
Fromfrom G5457;
King Jamesbright, full of light.
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
(φῶς) shining, bright, ἥλιος Refs 5th c.BC+; σκοτεινὰ καὶ φ. [σώματαLXX+1st c.AD+
II metaphorically, clear, distinct, λόγος Refs 1st c.AD+; also in moral sense, NT+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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | fōteinos | fōteinas1×φωτεινὴ | fōteinem4×φωτεινὸν | fōteinois | fōteinais | fōteineim |
| object accusative | fōteinon | fōteinan | fōteinoin | fōteinain | ||
| direct address vocative | fōteinor | fōteinar | fōteinoir | fōteinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | fōteinou | fōteinau | fōteineu | fōteinoiu | fōteinaiu | fōteineiu |
| to, for dative | fōteino | fōteina | fōteine | fōteinoi | fōteinai | fōteinei |
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
fōtein 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
fōteinas“bright”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 17:5ēti autou lalarōntou idou nefelas fōteinas episkiazata autoin, kai idou fōnas ek …While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice …
fōteinem“full of light”subject or objectdirect singular4×
Matthew 6:22… su haplouos, holem tem sōmem su fōteinem eti;… good, your whole body will be full of light.
Luke 11:34… ateiō, kai holem tem sōmem su fōteinem atō; epan de ponēros ateiō, kai …… good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your …
Luke 11:36ei oun tem sōmem su holem fōteinem, mē echarōntem merem tinem skoteinem, eti …So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in …
Luke 11:36“full of light”… mē echarōntem merem tinem skoteinem, eti fōteinem holem hōs hotan tos luchnos ta …… light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining …