noun · masculine
fōtismos
Strong’sG5462
light, luster, illumination
stem fōtism-2 times 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.
φωτισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(φωτίζω) [in LXX: Jb 3:9, Ps 26 (27):1 43 (44):3 77 (78):14 138 (139):11 (אוֹר), Ps 89:8 (מָאוֹר) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5462 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfo-tis-mos'
illumination (figuratively)
Fromfrom G5461;
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
illumination, light, Diocl(?).cited in Refs 1st c.AD+
2 metaphorically, light, Κύριος φ. μου LXX+NT
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 | fōtismos | fōtismois |
| object accusative | fōtismon2×φωτισμὸν | fōtismoin |
| direct address vocative | fōtismor | fōtismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fōtismou | fōtismoiu |
| to, for dative | fōtismo | fōtismoi |
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
fōtismo 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
fōtismon“light”objectaccusative singular2×
2 Corinthians 4:4… apistoiu eis tem mē augazara ton fōtismon teu euangelieu tau doxau tou Christou, …… unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory …
2 Corinthians 4:6… lampata en tai kardiai nu pros fōtismon tau gnōsiau tau doxau tou theou …… our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory …