Quick Definition
φωτεινός, ή, όν Adj bright, luminous, full of light
Strong's Definition
from 5457; lustrous, i.e. transparent or well-illuminated (figuratively)
KJV Usage: bright, full of light
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ή, -όν | φαίνω
14.51 · Physical Events and States · Light
full of light, well lighted pertaining to being well lighted In a number of languages one cannot speak of an object being ‘full of light,’ for light is not spoken of as a substance. It is, of course, normally possible to speak of something as ‘having light inside’ (for example, the occurrence of light within a room). However, rather than speaking positively of the occurrence of light, it is sometimes more satisfactory to indicate the absence of darkness, for example, ‘there was no darkness there’ or, as in MAT 6:22, ‘your whole body will have no darkness in it.’
14.50 · Physical Events and States · Light
bright, shining, radiant pertaining to being bright or shining, either of a source or of an object which is illuminated by a source
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φωτεινός [WH φωτινός, see I, ¢], τῆ, τόν, (pas), light, i. 6. composed of light, of a bright character: νεφέλη, Mt. xvii. 5 [ποῦ Grsb.]; οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ κυρίου μυριοπλασίως ἡλίου φωτεινότεροι, Sir. xxiii. 19. full of light, well lighted, opp. to σκοτεινός, Mt. vi. 22; Lk. xi. 34, 36, (τὰ σκοτεινὰ καὶ τὰ φωτεινὰ σώματα, Xen. mem. 3, 10, 1).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φωτεινός phōteinos 5x
radiant, lustrous, Mt. 17:5; enlightened, illuminated, Mt. 6:22; Lk. 11:34, 36 (2x)*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** φωτεινός (WH, φωτινός), ή, όν
(< φῶς), [in LXX: Si 17:31 23:19 * ;]
bright, light: νεφέλη, Mt 17:5; opp. to σκοτεινός, Mt 6:22, Lk 11:34, 36.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φωτεινός (or φωτινός, WH), “shining,” ‘‘ bright” (Mt 653 a/.). The superl’® is applied to a person in the address P Lond 1917} (c. A.D. 330-340) τῷ γνησιωτάτῳ Kal φω[τ]ινωτάτῳ μ[αἸκαριωτάτῳ .. . . daa Παιηοῦ, ἐν δεσπόϊτου *In]ood Χριστοῦ χαῖραι (/. χαῖρε), ‘to the most genuine and most enlightened, most blessed Apa Paiéou, greeting in our Master Jesus Christ” (Ed.). Cf. also the vi/a.p. biblical scholion PSI I. 6515 ot (4 εἰ Ὁ) πειστοὶ κροιγοροῦντες (/. πιστοὶ γρηγοροῦντες) ἐσώ(--ό)μεθα, λαμπάτί--δ)ες ὑ(--ἢ)μῶν φωτινὲ (2. φωτειναὶ) ἐν ἐλαίῳ. In a Christian Greek inscr. from Nubia of ix/A.D., published in J. Zg. Arch. xiii. p. 227, the prayer occurs—6 θ(εὸ)ὴς ἀναπαῦσον T(hv) ψυχὴν αὐτί(ο)ῦ ἐν κόλποις ᾿Αβραὰμ κ(αὶ) ᾿Ισαὰκ κ(αὶ) ᾿Τακὼβ ἐν τόπῳ φωτινῷ ἐν τόπῳ ἀναψύξεως ἔνθα ἀπέδρα ὀδύνη K(al) λύπη κ(αὶ) στεναγμός, “Ὁ God, give rest to his soul in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in a place of light, ina 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. 104, where reference is made toa funeral tablet (Berlin, No. 11820), which runs © Taésai 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-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φωτεινός (phōteinos) — bright. φωτεινός, ή, όν, (φῶς) shining, bright, ἥλιος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκοτεινὰ καὶ φ. [σώματα[LXX+1st c.AD+]
II. metaphorically, clear, distinct, λόγος [Refs 1st c.AD+]; also in moral sense, [NT+5th c.AD+]