ἑωσφόρος
morning star, dawn
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἑωσφόρος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 30:17 ἑωσφόρος And David came upon them, and struck them from the morning till the evening, and on the next day; and not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who were mounted on camels, and fled.
- Job 3:9 ἑωσφόρος Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:
- Job 11:17 ἑωσφόρος And your prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to you as from the noonday.
- Job 38:12 ἑωσφόρος Or did I order the morning light in your time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;
- Job 41:10 ἑωσφόρος Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
- Psalms 109:3 ἑωσφόρος With you is dominion in the day of your power, in the splendors of your saints: I have begotten you from the womb before the morning.
- Isaiah 14:12 ἑωσφόρος How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.
About this word
About this word
ἑωσφόρος (heōsphóros), “morning star, dawn,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →