What does φανός (phanós) mean in the Bible?
φανός (phanós): A portable light-bearing vessel, distinct from the brighter flame of a torch or lamp.
Greek · G5322
φανός
Torch
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φανόςG5322
Pronunciationphanós
What does φανός (phanós) mean in the Bible?
φανός (phanós): A portable light-bearing vessel, distinct from the brighter flame of a torch or lamp.
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How does the BSB render G5322?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include lanterns (1).
Where does φανός (phanós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 18:3. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itlanterns1×John 18:3
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First aligned rowJohn 18:3
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
John1
Source forms
φανῶν1xphanōnJohn 18:3
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural1xJohn 18:3
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A portable light-bearing vessel, distinct from the brighter flame of a torch or lamp.
Strong'sG5322
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
torch
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
John 18:3Noun Genitive Plural Masculine
φανῶνfanwn
a torch, lantern
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Plural · MasculineJohn 18:31×
Word Origins
φανός is built from this root:
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