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Strong's #5458: phoster (pronounced foce-tare')

from 5457; an illuminator, i.e. (concretely) a luminary, or (abstractly) brilliancy:--light.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phōstēr

1) that which gives light, an illuminator

1a) of the stars, sun and moon

2) light, brightness

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G5457

Citing in TDNT: 9:310, 1293




Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Philippians 2:15: "whom ye shine as lights in the world;"
Revelation 21:11: "of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like"









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