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λυχνία

Strong’s: G3087

Associated OET lemmas: λυχνία

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: λυχνία; -ας

Related lemmas: λύχνος

Sense 1: lampstand

Semantic entry: 6.105

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Lights and Light Holders

Definition: a stand designed to hold a single lamp or a series of lamps

Notes: One may translate ‘lampstand’ as ‘something on which a lamp could be placed’ or ‘a place for putting lamps.’

Further resources: realia:5.2

MAT 5:15: RV MAT 5:15 · LV MAT 5:15 · Read together MAT 5:15

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OET-RV MAT 5:15

15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket—you put it on a lampstand and it lightens up the house.

OET-LV MAT 5:15

15 And _not they _are _lighting a_lamp and are _putting it under the a_basket, but on the lampstand, and it _is _shining for _all the ones in the house.

MRK 4:21: RV MRK 4:21 · LV MRK 4:21 · Read together MRK 4:21

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OET-RV MRK 4:21

21 Then Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) told them, “Obviously no one goes and gets a lamp, and then puts it under a basket or under the bed, but rather they place it somewhere higher on a stand.

OET-LV MRK 4:21

21 And he _was _saying to _them:
Surely _not the lamp is _coming, in _order _that it _may _be _put under the basket or under the bed?
Not in _order _that it _may _be _put on the lampstand?

All 11 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 5:15 · LV MAT 5:15 · Read together MAT 5:15

MRK: RV MRK 4:21 · LV MRK 4:21 · Read together MRK 4:21

LUK: RV LUK 8:16 · RV LUK 11:33 · LV LUK 8:16 · LV LUK 11:33 · Read together LUK 8:16 · Read together LUK 11:33

HEB: RV HEB 9:2 · LV HEB 9:2 · Read together HEB 9:2

REV: RV REV 1:12–13 · RV REV 1:20 · RV REV 2:1 · RV REV 2:5 · RV REV 11:4 · LV REV 1:12–13 · LV REV 1:20 · LV REV 2:1 · LV REV 2:5 · LV REV 11:4 · Read together REV 1:12–13 · Read together REV 1:20 · Read together REV 2:1 · Read together REV 2:5 · Read together REV 11:4