Vocabulary Form
φῶς, φωτός, τό
Definition

light

Erasmian
Modern
Root
φωτ
Frequency
73
GK
5890
Cognates

A photograph is a picture drawn by light.

Mnemonics

You need light for your photos to come out right.

Mnemonic Singing

Oh, tell of His might, Oh, sing of His grace,
Whose robe is the light, Whose canopy space.

Song
Notes

Aternate song:
Fire and ice, darkness and light,
can never live together.

Biblical Concordance

1 Thessalonians 5:5 for you are all sons of light (phōtos | φωτός | gen sg neut), sons of the day. We do not belong to night or darkness.
1 Timothy 6:16 the only one having immortality, the one dwelling in unapproachable light (phōs | φῶς | acc sg neut), whom no person has seen or is able to see, to him be honor and might forever, Amen.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights (phōtōn | φώτων | gen pl neut), with whom there is no variation or shadow caused by change.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, so that you may declare the glorious deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light (phōs | φῶς | acc sg neut).
1 John 1:5 Now this is the message that we have heard from him and are proclaiming to you: God is light (phōs | φῶς | nom sg neut), and there is absolutely no darkness in him.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light (phōti | φωτί | dat sg neut), as he is in the light (phōti | φωτί | dat sg neut), we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 2:8 Yet it is a new commandment that I write to you, one that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light (phōs | φῶς | nom sg neut) is already shining.
1 John 2:9 The one who claims to be in the light (phōti | φωτί | dat sg neut) but goes on hating his brother is still in the darkness.
1 John 2:10 The one who loves his brother is living in the light (phōti | φωτί | dat sg neut) and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
Revelation 18:23 the light (phōs | φῶς | nom sg neut) of a lamp will never again shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will never again be heard in you; for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your magic spells.
Revelation 21:24 The nations will walk by its light (phōtos | φωτός | gen sg neut) and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
Revelation 22:5 And night will be no more. They will have no need for the light (phōtos | φωτός | gen sg neut) of a lamp or the light (phōtos | φωτός | gen sg neut) of the sun because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.