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
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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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H5054
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
H5051
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
H5051
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
H5051
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
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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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