noun · feminine
lamprotas
Strong’sG2987
splendor, brightness
stem lamprot-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.
λαμπρότης, -ητος, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ps 109 (110):3 (הָדָר), al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2987 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlam-prot'-ace
brilliancy
Fromfrom G2986;
King Jamesbrightness.
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
brilliancy, splendour, λ. καὶ τάξις τοῦ στρατεύματος Refs 5th c.BC+; of a horse, Refs; of arms, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 clearness, distinctness, Refs 1st c.AD+
II metaphorically, brilliancy, splendour, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, distinctions, τιμαὶ καὶ λ. Refs; ἔν τινος λαμπρότητι in distinction for a thing, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 munificence, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 brilliancy of style, Refs 1st c.AD+; λαμπρότητες τοῦ λόγου, Latin lumina orationis, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 λ. ψυχῆς magnanimity, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.5 as a title, ἡ σὴ λ. your Serenity, Serene Highness, 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 | lamprotas | lamprotais |
| object accusative | lamprotan1×λαμπρότητα | lamprotain |
| direct address vocative | lamprotar | lamprotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | lamprotau | lamprotaiu |
| to, for dative | lamprota | lamprotai |
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
lamprota 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
lamprotan“brighter”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 26:13… hodan horama, basilevor, ouranothen huper tan lamprotan tou hēliou perilamparantem min fōtem kai …… I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me …