2 Samuel 22:15
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
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Lightning
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Luke 17:24
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
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בָּרָק
bârâq · baw-rawk'
5 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
lightning; by analogy, a gleam; concretely, a flashing sword
Strong's KJV usage: bright, glitter(-ing sword), lightning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:15Strong's last: Zechariah 9:14
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astrapḗ · as-trap-ay'
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
lightning; by analogy, glare
Strong's KJV usage: :--lightning, bright shining.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:27Strong's last: Luke 17:24
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chăzîyz · khaw-zeez'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a flash of lightning
Strong's KJV usage: bright cloud, lightning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 28:26Strong's last: Job 38:25
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ʼôwr · ore
1 times translated as this KJV form123 total Strong's occurrences
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: bright, clear, day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Strong's first: Job 37:3Strong's last: Job 37:3
Open full H216 profile →בָּזָק
bâzâq · baw-zawk'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a flash of lightning
Strong's KJV usage: flash of lightning.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 1:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 1:14
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H1300
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
H2385
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
H216
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
H2385
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
H1300
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
H1300
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
H965
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
H1300
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
H1300
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
G796
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
G796
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
G796
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
G796
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
English meaning and historical usage.
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lightning
LIGHTNING, noun li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]
1. A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder. Sometimes lightning is a mere instantaneous flash of light without thunder, as heat-lightning, lightning seen by reflection, the flash being beyond the limits of our horizon.
2. [from lighten, to diminish weight.] Abatement; alleviation; mitigation.
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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