φῶς G5457
light (illumination); firelight, fire (as light source)
2. firelight, fire (as light source) — Light produced by fire, referring to the glow or illumination from a flame rather than light in general. The translation signatures diverge sharply from the main 'light' sense: hin 'aag' (fire, not 'jyoti'), arb 'nari' (fire, from the root n-w-r in its fire sense, not the abstract 'nur'), swa 'moto' (fire, not 'nuru'), kor 'bul-eul' (fire, not 'bit'). This sense appears in Mark 14:54 or Luke 22:56 where Peter warms himself by the firelight in the high priest's courtyard, and the Greek phos specifically denotes the fire's glow rather than abstract light. 1×
AR["نَارِ"]·ben["আলোর"]·DE["Licht"]·EN["light"]·FR["lumière"]·heb["אוּר"]·HI["आग"]·ID["api"]·IT["luce"]·jav["geni"]·KO["불을"]·PT["fogo"]·RU["огня"]·ES["luz"]·SW["moto"]·TR["ateşe"]·urd["آگ"]
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Senses
1. light (illumination) — Light as illumination, whether natural (sunlight, daylight), divine (God's light, spiritual light), or metaphorical (moral/intellectual enlightenment). The vast majority of occurrences (69 singular + 2 plural = 71 of 72) carry this meaning with consistent multilingual evidence: spa 'luz/luces', hin 'jyoti/roshni' (light/luminance), arb 'al-nur/anwar' (the light/lights), kor 'bit/bitdeul' (light/lights), swa 'nuru/mwanga' (light/brightness). Singular and plural are purely inflectional variants of the same core meaning. 71×
AR["النُّورِ","النّورُ","نورَ","نورُ","نورِ","نُورًا","نُورٌ","نُورَ","نُورُ","نُورُكُمْ","نُورِ","نُّورَ","نُّورُ","نُّورِ"]·ben["আলো","আলোতে","আলোর"]·DE["Licht"]·EN["a-light","light"]·FR["lumière"]·heb["אוֹר"]·HI["आग","उजाले","उजियाला","ज्योति","ज्योति,","ज्योति-के","ज्योति-में","ज्योति।","प्रकश"]·ID["cahaya","itu","terang","terang,","terang."]·IT["luce"]·jav["pepadhang","pepadhang,","pepadhang.","pepadhang;","sorot-latu,"]·KO["밝음에서","불빛에","빛","빛-을","빛-이","빛을","빛의","빛이","빛처럼"]·PT["luz","luz,","luz."]·RU["свет","света","свете","свету"]·ES["luz"]·SW["mwanga","mwangani;","nuru"]·TR["aydınlıkta","ışık","ışıkta","ışığa","ışığı","ışığı.","ışığınızı"]·urd["روشنی","نور","نور،","نور۔"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
φῶς, contraction for φάος, light (which see). φῴς, ἡ, plural φῷδες, contraction from φωΐς (which see).