λαμπτήρ
lamp, torch
Where this word appears
Every passage where λαμπτήρ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Proverbs 16:24 λαμπτήρ Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.
- Proverbs 20:9 λαμπτήρ Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?
- Proverbs 21:4 λαμπτήρ A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.
- Proverbs 24:20 λαμπτήρ For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.
About this word
About this word
λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr), “lamp, torch,” 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 4 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 →
