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Strong's #3088: luchnos (pronounced lookh'-nos)

from the base of 3022; a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively):--candle, light.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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luchnos

1) a lamp, candle, that is placed on a stand or candlestick

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the base of G3022

Citing in TDNT: 4:324, 542




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Matthew 5:15: "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,"
Matthew 6:22: "The light of the body is the eye: if"
Mark 4:21: "he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under"
Luke 8:16: "No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth"
Luke 11:33: "No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under"
Luke 11:34: "The light of the body is the eye: therefore"
Luke 11:36: "as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light."
Luke 12:35: "be girded about, and your lights burning;"
Luke 15:8: "piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house,"
John 5:35: "a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for"
2 Peter 1:19: "well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,"
Revelation 18:23: "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;"
Revelation 21:23: "the Lamb is the light thereof."
Revelation 22:5: "and they need no candle, neither light of the sun;"









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