Quick Definition
bright, luminous, full of light
Strong's Definition
lustrous, i.e. transparent or well-illuminated (figuratively)
Derivation: from G5457 (φῶς);
KJV Usage: bright, full of light
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φωτεινός (WH φωτινος, see Iota), φωτεινή, φωτεινόν (φῶς), light, i. e. composed of light, of a bright character: νεφέλη, Mat_17:5 (not Griesbach); οἱ ὀφθαλμοί κυρίου μυριοπλασίως ἡλίου φωτεινότεροι, Sir_23:19. full of light, well lighted, opposed to σκοτεινός, Mat_6:22; Luk_11:34; Luk_11:36, (τά σκοτεινά καί τά φωτεινα σώματα, Xenophon, mem. 3, 10, 1).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φωτεινός phōteinos 5x
radiant, lustrous, Mat_17:5 ;
enlightened, illuminated, Mat_6:22 ; Luk_11:34 ; Luk_11:36 (2x)
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**φωτεινός ( WH , φωτινός ), ή , όν
( <φῶς ),
[in LXX : Sir_17:31 ; Sir_23:19 * ;]
bright, light: νεφέλη , Mat_17:5 ; opp . to σκοτεινός , Mat_6:22 , Luk_11:34 ; Luk_11:36 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φωτεινός [page 680]
φωτεινός (or φωτινός , WH), shining, bright (Mat. 6:22 al. ). The superl ve is applied to a person in the address P Lond 1917 .1 ( c A.D. 330 340) τῷ γνησιωτάτῳ καὶ φω [τ ]ι̣νωτάτῳ μ [α ]καριωτάτῳ . . . . ἄπα Παιηο̣υ̣ͅ , ἐν δεσπό [του Ἰη ]σοῦ Χριστοῦ χαῖραι ( l. χαῖρε ), to the most genuine and most enlightened, most blessed Apa Paiκou, greeting in our Master Jesus Christ (Ed.). Cf. also the vi/A.D. biblical scholion PSI I. 65 .13 οἱ ( l. εἰ ?) πειστοὶ κροιγοροῦντες ( l. πιστοὶ γρηγοροῦντες ) ἐσώ (=ό )μεθα , λαμπάτ (=δ )ες ὑ (=ἡ )μῶν φωτινὲ ( l. φωτειναὶ ) ἐν ἐλαίῳ .
In a Christian Greek inscr. from Nubia of ix/A.D., published in J. Eg. Arch. xiii. p. 227, the prayer occurs ὁ θ (εὸ )ς ἀναπαῦσον τ (ὴν ) ψυχὴν αὐτ (ο )ῦ ἐν κόλποις Ἀβραὰμ κ (αὶ ) Ἰσαὰκ κ (αὶ ) Ἰακὼβ ἐν τόπῳ φωτινῷ ἐν τόπῳ ἀναψύξεως ἔνθα ἀπέδρα ὀδύνη κ (αὶ ) λύπη κ (αὶ ) στεναγμός , O God, give rest to his soul in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in a place of light, in a place of refreshment, from which pain and grief and lamentation have fled away (Ed.). See also P. D. Scott-Moncrieff Paganism and Christianity in Egypt , p. : o4, where reference is made to a funeral tablet (Berlin, No. 11820), which runs Taκsai lived 28 years. She has gone to the shining (land). The φωτινὸς τόπος may be either the Christian heaven, or the place of the illuminated ones of the old pagan religion.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
φωτεινός φωτεινός, ή, όν [Etym: φῶς] "shining, bright", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
φωτεινός (WH, φωτινός), ή, όν
(φῶς), [in LXX: Sir.17:31 23:19 * ;]
bright, light: νεφέλη, Mat.17:5; opposite to σκοτεινός, Mat.6:22, Luk.11:34, 36.†
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