Word Summary
astrapē: lightning, brightness
Original Word: ἀστραπήTransliteration: astrapē
Phonetic Spelling: (as-trap-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: lightning, brightness
Meaning: lightning, brightness
Strong's Concordance
lightning, bright shining.
From astrapto; lightning; by analogy, glare -- lightning, bright shining.
see GREEK astrapto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 796: ἀστραπήἀστραπή,
ἀστραπῆς,
ἡ,
lightning:
Luke 10:18;
Luke 17:24;
Matthew 24:27;
Matthew 28:3; plural,
Revelation 4:5;
Revelation 8:5;
Revelation 11:19;
Revelation 16:18; of the gleam of a lamp,
Luke 11:36 (so
Aeschylus fragment (from schol. on
Sophocles Oed. Col. 1047) 188 Ahrens, 372 Dindorf).