What does φωτεινός (phōteinós) mean in the Bible?
φωτεινός (phōteinós): Light-filled or radiant quality; contrasts with darkness (σκοτεινός) in describing both literal and spiritual illumination.
Greek · G5460
φωτεινός
Bright
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φωτεινός G5460
Pronunciation phōteinós
What does φωτεινός (phōteinós) mean in the Bible?
φωτεινός (phōteinós): Light-filled or radiant quality; contrasts with darkness (σκοτεινός) in describing both literal and spiritual illumination.
Full entry for φωτεινός (G5460) · Open the biblical lexicon
Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5460?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include full of light (2), a bright (1), of light (1), radiant (1).
Where does φωτεινός (phōteinós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 6:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (3), Matthew (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It full of light 2× Matthew 6:22, Luke 11:34
a bright 1× Matthew 17:5
of light 1× Luke 11:36
radiant 1× Luke 11:36
Show sample aligned rows
Matthew 6:22 φωτεινὸν to full of light Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular Matthew 17:5 φωτεινὴ to a bright Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular Luke 11:34 φωτεινόν to full of light Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular Luke 11:36 φωτεινόν to of light Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular Luke 11:36 φωτεινὸν to radiant Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 6:22
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 2
Matthew 2 Luke 3
Source forms
φωτεινόν 2x phōteinon Luke 11:34, Luke 11:36
φωτεινὸν 2x phōteinon Matthew 6:22, Luke 11:36
φωτεινὴ 1x phōteinē Matthew 17:5
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular 4x Matthew 6:22, Luke 11:34, Luke 11:36
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Matthew 17:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Light-filled or radiant quality; contrasts with darkness (σκοτεινός) in describing both literal and spiritual illumination.
Strong's G5460
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 5 times Word forms 2 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Matthew 6:22 Source Gloss
bright
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Light-filled or radiant quality; contrasts with darkness (σκοτεινός) in describing both literal and spiritual illumination.
(φῶς), [in LXX: Sir.17:31 23:19 * ;] bright, light: νεφέλη, Mat.17:5; opposite to σκοτεινός, Mat.6:22, Luk.11:34, 36.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 6:22 Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
φωτεινὸν fwteinon
bright, luminous, full of light
Read verse Matthew 17:5 Adjective Nominative Singular Feminine
φωτεινὴ fwteinh
bright, luminous, full of light
Read verse Luke 11:34 Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
φωτεινόν fwteinon
bright, luminous, full of light
Read verse Luke 11:36 Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
φωτεινόν, fwteinon
bright, luminous, full of light
Read verse Luke 11:36 Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
φωτεινὸν fwteinon
bright, luminous, full of light
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 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Nominative (5) Number pattern Singular (5)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Neuter Matt 6:22 · Luke 11:34 · Luke 11:36 4×
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Matt 17:5 1×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
The eye as bright, contrasted with darkness, metaphor for spiritual perception
A bright cloud overshadowing the disciples at the Transfiguration, divine manifestation
The eye as bright when full of light, opposed to darkness in spiritual condition
Showing 3 selected witnesses from 5 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
φωτεινός is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain