λυχνία
lampstand
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
6 distinct verses where G3087 appears in the Accusative case, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 1:12 λυχνίας n acc pl fem I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 1:20 λυχνίας λυχνίαι n acc pl fem n nom pl fem the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
- Revelation 2:5 λυχνίαν n acc sg fem Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
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.
λυχνια (lychnía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “lampstand.” It clusters heavily in Revelation, which alone accounts for 55% of its uses. It turns up in 11 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Matthew 5:15. Translators differ — “candlesticks” in the King James Version, then “lampstands” (Berean Standard Bible) and “lampstand” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3087 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 6 verses 55%
- Luke 2 verses 18%
- Matthew 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Johannine 6 verses · 55%
- Revelation 6 verses · 55%
- Gospels 4 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 18%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 9%
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: Candlesticks 6×, Candlestick 5×
- American Standard Version: Candlesticks 4×, Stand 3×, Candlestick 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lampstands 6×, Stand 4×, Lampstand 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lampstand 6×, Lampstands 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3087 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3087 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3087 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3087 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- a (candlestick) lamp stand, candelabrum
Word origin
Derived from λυχνος (lýchnos) (G3088) — lamp.
From G3088 ; a lamp stand (literally or figuratively): - candlestick.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3087 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λυχνίαν lychnían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:15 | 4 |
| λυχνίας lychnías | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 1:12 | 3 |
| λυχνίαι lychníai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 1:20 | 2 |
| λυχνιῶν lychniō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 1:13 | 2 |
| λυχνία lychnía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 9:2 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λυχνια appears 31 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 28 verses in 9 books.
- 31
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 28
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 25:31 λυχνία
- Leviticus 24:4 λυχνία
- Numbers 3:31 λυχνία
- 1 Kings 7:35 λυχνία
- 2 Kings 4:10 λυχνία
- 1 Chronicles 28:15 λυχνία
- 2 Chronicles 4:7 λυχνία
- Jeremiah 52:19 λυχνία
- Zechariah 4:2 λυχνία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3087) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 25:31 λυχνία "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 25:32 λυχνία There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
- Exodus 25:33 λυχνία three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
- Exodus 25:34 λυχνία and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
- Exodus 25:35 λυχνία and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 26:35 λυχνία You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 30:27 λυχνία the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 31:8 λυχνία the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 35:14 λυχνία the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
- Exodus 38:13 λυχνία For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
- Exodus 39:16 λυχνία They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
- Exodus 40:4 λυχνία You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps of it.
- Exodus 40:24 λυχνία He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tent southward.
- Leviticus 24:4 λυχνία He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.
- Numbers 3:31 λυχνία Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
- Numbers 4:9 λυχνία They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
- Numbers 8:2 λυχνία "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'"
- Numbers 8:3 λυχνία Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 8:4 λυχνία This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
- 1 Kings 7:35 λυχνία In the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays of it and the panels of it were of the same.
- 2 Kings 4:10 λυχνία Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
- 1 Chronicles 28:15 λυχνία by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for the lamps of it, of gold, by weight for every lampstand and for the lamps of it; and for the lampstands of silver, [silver] by weight for [every] lampstand and for the lamps of it, according to the use of every lampstand;
- 2 Chronicles 4:7 λυχνία He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
- 2 Chronicles 4:20 λυχνία and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 λυχνία and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.
- Jeremiah 52:19 λυχνία The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.
- Zechariah 4:2 λυχνία He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and, behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
- Zechariah 4:11 λυχνία Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3087) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
