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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls[fn] of[fn] all the people of Sheth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels[fn] shouted for joy?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:9 - the moon and stars to govern the night;

His love endures forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:4 - He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:9 - “ ‘We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; let us leave her and each go to our own land, for her judgment reaches to the skies, it rises as high as the heavens.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god[fn]— which you made for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
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