lychnos · lamp

What it means

lychnos (λύχνος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “lamp”.

Oil lamp.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A vessel of oil that gives light, or someone who shines.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lamp ×13
• lamps ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×6
• John×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 5:15

  Nor do they light a lamp and put it under the basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 6:22

  “The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light;

• Mark 4:21

  And he was saying to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under the basket or under the bed? Is it not to be put on the lampstand?

• Luke 8:16

  And no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 11:33

  No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under the basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 11:34

  The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is healthy, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

• Luke 11:36

  So if your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its brightness gives light to you.”

• Luke 12:35

  Let your waists be girded and your lamps burning,

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

• John 5:35

  He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

• 2 Peter 1:19

  And we have the prophetic word as more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

• Revelation 18:23

  and the light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

• Revelation 21:23

  And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

• Revelation 22:5

  And night will be no more, and they have no need of the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign to the ages of the ages.