Lexical Summary phōsphoros: light-bringing, the morning star Original Word: φωσφόροςTransliteration: phōsphoros Phonetic Spelling: (foce-for'-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: light-bringing, the morning star Meaning: light-bringing, the morning star Strong's Concordance a morning starFrom phos and phero; light-bearing ("phosphorus"), i.e. (specially), the morning-star (figuratively) -- day star. see GREEK phos see GREEK phero Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5459: φωσφόροςφωσφόρος, φωσφορον (φῶς and φέρω), light-bringing, giving light (Aristophanes, Euripides, Plato, Plutarch, others); as a substantive, ὁ φωσφόρος (LatinLucifer), the planet Venus, the morning-star, day-star (Plato, Tim. Locr., p. 96 e.; Plutarch, others): 2 Peter 1:19, on the meaning of this passage, see λύχνος. |
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