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Lexicon :: Strong's G2246 - hēlios

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ἥλιος
Transliteration
hēlios (Key)
Pronunciation
hay'-lee-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From hele (a ray, perhaps akin to the alternate of αἱρέω (G138))
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Strong’s Definitions

ἥλιος hḗlios, hay'-lee-os; from ἕλη hélē (a ray; perhaps akin to the alternate of G138); the sun; by implication, light:—+ east, sun.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's G2246 in the following manner: sun (30x), east (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's G2246 in the following manner: sun (30x), east (2x).

  1. the sun

  2. the rays of the sun

  3. the light of day

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἥλιος hḗlios, hay'-lee-os; from ἕλη hélē (a ray; perhaps akin to the alternate of G138); the sun; by implication, light:—+ east, sun.
STRONGS G2246:
ἥλιος, -ου, ὁ [often anarthrous, Winers Grammar, 120 (114); Buttmann, 89 (78)], (ἕλη [root us to burn, cf. Curtius, § 612]); Sept. for שֶׁמֶשׁ; the sun: Matthew 5:45; Matthew 13:43; Mark 13:24; Luke 4:40; Luke 21:25; Acts 26:13; 1 Corinthians 15:41; Revelation 1:16, etc. equivalent to the rays of the sun, Revelation 7:16; equivalent to the light of day: μὴ βλέπων τὸν ἥλιον, of a blind man, Acts 13:11.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:45; 13:43
Mark
13:24
Luke
4:40; 21:25
Acts
13:11; 26:13
1 Corinthians
15:41
Revelation
1:16; 7:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2246 matches the Greek ἥλιος (hēlios),
which occurs 242 times in 221 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 15:12–Jdg 20:43)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:23 - By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:31 - The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[fn] and he was limping because of his hip.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,[fn] to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12 - When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:7 - When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea,[fn] below the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[fn] of your departure from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 - But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:13 - Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:15 - Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:14 - with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on[fn] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - The other half of Manasseh,[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had assigned it to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - The boundary then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor and turned north to Gilgal, which faces the Pass of Adummim south of the gorge. It continued along to the waters of En Shemesh and came out at En Rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - Then it curved westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Kesalon), continued down to Beth Shemesh and crossed to Timnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - It then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, passing Kabul on the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan[fn] on the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - “So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:33 - In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - “Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14 - So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily[fn] overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

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