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Lexicon :: Strong's G2985 - lampas

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λαμπάς
Transliteration
lampas (Key)
Pronunciation
lam-pas'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:16,497

Trench's Synonyms: xlvi. φῶς, φέγγος, φωστήρ, λύχνος, λαμπάς.

Strong’s Definitions

λαμπάς lampás, lam-pas'; from G2989; a "lamp" or flambeau:—lamp, light, torch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G2985 in the following manner: lamp (7x), torch (1x), light (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G2985 in the following manner: lamp (7x), torch (1x), light (1x).

  1. a torch

  2. a lamp, the flame of which is fed with oil

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λαμπάς lampás, lam-pas'; from G2989; a "lamp" or flambeau:—lamp, light, torch.
STRONGS G2985:
λαμπάς, λαμπάδος, ἡ (λάμπω, cf. our lamp) (from Aeschylus and Thucydides down), the Sept. for לַפִּיד;
1. a torch: Revelation 4:5 (where A. V. lamps); Revelation 8:10.
2. a lamp, the flame of which is fed with oil: Matthew 25:1, 3f, 7; John 18:3; Acts 20:8. (Cf. Trench, Synonyms, § xlvi.; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii. 455ff; Becker, Charicles, Sc. ix. (English translation, p. 163).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
25:1; 25:3; 25:7
John
18:3
Acts
20:8
Revelation
4:5; 8:10

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Strong's Number G2985 matches the Greek λαμπάς (lampas),
which occurs 14 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18 - And all the people perceived the [fn]thundering, and the flashes, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and all the people feared and stood afar off,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16 - And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the [fn]hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - and the three companies sounded with the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands their horns to sound with; and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gedeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and [fn]olives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:19 - (LXX 41:11) Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not [fn]rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:5 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4 - (LXX 2:5) in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 - In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Juda as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about: and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.
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