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Koine Greek wordlink #159234

SR GNT Rev 8:10 λαμπάς (lampas) ‘great being burned like a torch and fell on’ Strongs=29850 Lemma=lampas
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form λαμπάς (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λαμπάς’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘a torch’.

Rev 8:10 ‘great being burned like a torch and fell on’ SR GNT Rev 8:10 word 15

OET-LV: 10 And the third messenger trumpeted, and fell out _of the sky a_star great, being _burned like a_torch, and fell on the third of _the rivers, and on the springs of _the waters, (REV_8:10)

OET-RV: 10 Then the third messenger blew his trumpet and a huge star, burning like a torch, fell down from the sky and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. (REV 8:10)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘lampas’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a torch’, ‘lamps’, ‘torches’.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular