λύχνος
lamp
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G3088 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Revelation. 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.
Revelation
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.
The Greek noun λυχνος centers on the idea of “lamp.” Translators differ — “candle” in the King James Version, then “lamp” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 14 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Luke (43%), then Revelation and Matthew. First canonically at Matthew 5:15, it enters the text early. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3088 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 6 verses 43%
- Revelation 3 verses 21%
- Matthew 2 verses 14%
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 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 71%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 43%
- Johannine 4 verses · 29%
- Revelation 3 verses · 21%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
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: Candle 8×, Light 4×
- American Standard Version: Lamp 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lamp 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lamp 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3088 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3088 across 15 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3088 across 14 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3088 across 14 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 lamp, candle, that is placed on a stand or candlestick
Word origin
Derived from λευκος (leukós) (G3022) — white.
From the base of G3022 ; a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively): - candle light.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3088 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λύχνος lýchnos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:22 | 6 |
| λύχνον lýchnon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 5:15 | 4 |
| λύχνου lýchnou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:23 | 2 |
| λύχνοι lýchnoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 12:35 | 1 |
| λύχνῳ lýchnō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Peter 1:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3088, 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
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λυχνος appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 37 verses in 16 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 37
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 25:37 λύχνος
- Leviticus 24:2 λύχνος
- Numbers 4:9 λύχνος
- 1 Samuel 3:3 λύχνος
- 2 Samuel 21:17 λύχνος
- 1 Kings 7:35 λύχνος
- 2 Kings 8:19 λύχνος
- 1 Chronicles 28:15 λύχνος
- 2 Chronicles 4:20 λύχνος
- Job 18:6 λύχνος
- Psalms 17:29 λύχνος
- Proverbs 6:23 λύχνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3088) 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 25:37 λύχνος You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
- Exodus 27:20 λύχνος "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- Exodus 30:7 λύχνος Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
- Exodus 30:8 λύχνος When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
- Exodus 38:16 λύχνος All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
- Exodus 38:17 λύχνος The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
- Exodus 39:16 λύχνος 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 λύχνος 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 40:25 λύχνος He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 24:2 λύχνος "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- Leviticus 24:4 λύχνος He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.
- Numbers 4:9 λύχνος 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 λύχνος "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 λύχνος Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- 1 Samuel 3:3 λύχνος and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
- 2 Samuel 21:17 λύχνος But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 22:29 λύχνος For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.
- 1 Kings 7:35 λύχνος 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 8:19 λύχνος However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
- 1 Chronicles 28:15 λύχνος 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 4:20 λύχνος and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
- 2 Chronicles 4:21 λύχνος and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 λύχνος 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.
- 2 Chronicles 21:7 λύχνος However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 λύχνος Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- Job 18:6 λύχνος The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 21:17 λύχνος "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- Job 29:3 λύχνος When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
- Psalms 17:29 λύχνος
- Psalms 118:105 λύχνος
- Psalms 131:17 λύχνος
- Proverbs 6:23 λύχνος For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
- Proverbs 31:18 λύχνος She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
- Jeremiah 25:10 λύχνος Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Daniel 4:29 λύχνος At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Zephaniah 1:12 λύχνος It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."
- Zechariah 4:2 λύχνος 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;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3088) 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.
