ἀστραπή
lightning
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
- 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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G796 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
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.
αστραπη — transliterated astrapḗ — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “lightning.” Debuting at Matthew 24:27, it then recurs through the corpus. With 9 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (44% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G796 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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 4 verses 44%
- Luke 3 verses 33%
- Matthew 2 verses 22%
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.
- Gospels 5 verses · 56%
- Johannine 4 verses · 44%
- Revelation 4 verses · 44%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
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: Lightning 4×, Lightnings 4×
- American Standard Version: Lightning 4×, Lightnings 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flashes of lightning 4×, Lightning 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lightning 5×, Lightnings 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G796 across 9 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 G796 across 9 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G796 across 9 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 G796 across 10 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.
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.
- lightning
Word origin
Derived from αστραπτω (astráptō) (G797) — to lighten.
From G797 ; lightning ; by analogy glare : - lightning bright shining.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G796 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀστραπαὶ astrapaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 4:5 | 4 |
| ἀστραπὴ astrapḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:27 | 3 |
| ἀστραπὴν astrapḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 10:18 | 1 |
| ἀστραπῇ astrapē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 11:36 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αστραπη appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 11 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 19:16 ἀστραπή
- Deuteronomy 32:41 ἀστραπή
- 2 Samuel 22:15 ἀστραπή
- Job 20:25 ἀστραπή
- Psalms 17:15 ἀστραπή
- Jeremiah 10:13 ἀστραπή
- Ezekiel 1:13 ἀστραπή
- Daniel 3:73 ἀστραπή
- Nahum 2:5 ἀστραπή
- Habakkuk 3:11 ἀστραπή
- Zechariah 9:14 ἀστραπή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G796) 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 19:16 ἀστραπή It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Deuteronomy 32:41 ἀστραπή If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, Will recompense those who hate me.
- 2 Samuel 22:15 ἀστραπή He sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and confused them.
- Job 20:25 ἀστραπή He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
- Psalms 17:15 ἀστραπή As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Psalms 76:19 ἀστραπή
- Psalms 96:4 ἀστραπή For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalms 134:7 ἀστραπή
- Psalms 143:6 ἀστραπή I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
- Jeremiah 10:13 ἀστραπή when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Jeremiah 28:16 ἀστραπή Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 1:13 ἀστραπή As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
- Daniel 3:73 ἀστραπή
- Daniel 10:6 ἀστραπή his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
- Nahum 2:5 ἀστραπή He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
- Habakkuk 3:11 ἀστραπή The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.
- Zechariah 9:14 ἀστραπή Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G796) 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.
