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Lexicon :: Strong's G798 - astron

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ἄστρον
Transliteration
astron (Key)
Pronunciation
as'-tron
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:503,86

Strong’s Definitions

ἄστρον ástron, as'-tron; neuter from G792; properly, a constellation; put for a single star (natural or artificial):—star.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G798 in the following manner: star (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G798 in the following manner: star (4x).

  1. a group of stars, a constellation

  2. a star

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄστρον ástron, as'-tron; neuter from G792; properly, a constellation; put for a single star (natural or artificial):—star.
STRONGS G798:
ἄστρον, -ου, τό, [(see ἀστήρ at the beginning), from Homer down];
1. a group of stars, a constellation; but not infrequent also
2. equivalent to ἀστήρ a star: Luke 21:25; Acts 27:20; Hebrews 11:12; the image of a star, Acts 7:43.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
21:25
Acts
7:43; 27:20
Hebrews
11:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G798 matches the Greek ἄστρον (astron),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - (LXX 4:15) So we continued labouring at the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - (LXX 135:9) The moon and the stars to rule the night; for his mercy endures for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4 - (LXX 146:4) He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - I have made the earth, and man upon it: I with my hand have established the heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:9 - (LXX 28:9) We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - and it magnified itself to the host of heaven; and there fell to the earth some of the host of heaven and of the stars, and they trampled on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.
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