λαμπρός
splendid
‘splendid’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (22%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (22%)
- Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (22%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (11%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (11%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2986 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
James 2 verses
- James 2:2 λαμπρᾷ adj dat sg fem For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
- James 2:3 λαμπρὰν adj acc sg fem and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
Revelation 5 verses
- Revelation 15:6 λαμπρὸν adj acc sg masc The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
- Revelation 18:14 λαμπρὰ adj nom pl neut The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
- Revelation 19:8 λαμπρὸν adj acc sg neut It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
- Revelation 22:1 λαμπρὸν adj acc sg masc He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Revelation 22:16 λαμπρὸς adj nom sg masc I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
λαμπρος — transliterated lamprós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “splendid.” More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. It appears 9 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Luke 23:11, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2986 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 56%
- James 2 verses 22%
- Luke 1 verse 11%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Johannine 5 verses · 56%
- Revelation 5 verses · 56%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 22%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 22%
- Gospels 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bright 2×, Goodly 2×, White 2×
- American Standard Version: Bright 5×, Fine 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bright 3×, Fine 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bright 4×, Splendid 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2986 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2986 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2986 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2986 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- shining
- splendid, magnificent
Word origin
Derived from λαμπας (lampás) (G2985) — torch.
From the same as G2985 ; radiant ; by analogy limpid ; figuratively magnificent or sumptuous (in appearance): - bright clear gay goodly gorgeous white.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2986 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λαμπρὸν lampròn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 15:6 | 3 |
| λαμπρὰν lampràn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 23:11 | 2 |
| λαμπρᾷ lamprâ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 10:30 | 2 |
| λαμπρὰ lamprà | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 18:14 | 1 |
| λαμπρὸς lampròs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 22:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2986, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
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