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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 Box Exo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, 'I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - 'I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. A star will march forth out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab, and the heads of all the sons of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - the moon and stars to rule by night, for his loyal love endures,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4 - He counts the number of the stars; he names all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - You said to yourself, "I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - I made the earth, I created the people who live on it. It was me - my hands stretched out the sky, I give orders to all the heavenly lights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:9 - Foreigners living there will say, 'We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let's leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky; I will darken its stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - It grew so big it reached the army of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars to the ground, where it trampled them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!" says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
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