2 Samuel 22:13
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
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Brightness
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Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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7 occurrences in 7 verses.
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נֹגַהּ
nôgahh · no'-gah
11 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
brilliancy (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bright(-ness), light, (clear) shining.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:13Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:4
Open full H5051 profile →זֹהַר
zôhar · zo'-har
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
brilliancy
Strong's KJV usage: brightness.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 8:2Strong's last: Daniel 12:3
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zîyv · zeev
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) cheerfulness
Strong's KJV usage: brightness, countenance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 2:31Strong's last: Daniel 4:36
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yiphʻâh · yif-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
splendor or (figuratively) beauty
Strong's KJV usage: brightness.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 28:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:17
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apaúgasma · ap-ow'-gas-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an off-flash, i.e. effulgence
Strong's KJV usage: :--brightness.
Strong's first: Hebrews 1:3Strong's last: Hebrews 1:3
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epipháneia · ep-if-an'-i-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a manifestation, i.e. (specially) the advent of Christ (past or future)
Strong's KJV usage: :--appearing, brightness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Thessalonians 2:8Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 2:8
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lamprótēs · lam-prot'-ace
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
brilliancy
Strong's KJV usage: :--brightness.
Strong's first: Acts 26:13Strong's last: Acts 26:13
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yâqâr · yaw-kawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
valuable (objectively or subjectively)
Strong's KJV usage: brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 31:26Strong's last: Job 31:26
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nᵉgôhâh · neg-o-haw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
splendor
Strong's KJV usage: brightness.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:9Strong's last: Isaiah 59:9
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H5051
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
H5051
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
H5051
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
H2096
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
H5051
Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.
H3314
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
H3314
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
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brightness
BRIGHTNESS, noun briteness. Splendor; luster; glitter.
1. Acuteness, applied to the faculties; sharpness of wit; as the brightness of a man's parts.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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