Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
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Usage: λαμπάς, -άδος, ἡ (λάμπω), [in LXX for לַפִּיד ;] a torch (frequently fed, like a lamp, with oil): Mat.25:1 ff., Jhn.18:3, Act.20:8, Rev.4:5 8:10.† (AS)
Lampas means “lamp” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2985 — yabin (“Jabin”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2985 λαμπάς (lampas) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. lampas (lam-pas') n. 1. a "lamp" or flambeau [from G2989] It has 25 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include lamps, torches, lights, and lamp. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
lampas (lam-pas') n. 1. a "lamp" or flambeau [from G2989] KJV: lamp, light, torch Root(s): G2989
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Usage: λαμπάς, -άδος, ἡ (λάμπω), [in LXX for לַפִּיד ;] a torch (frequently fed, like a lamp, with oil): Mat.25:1 ff., Jhn.18:3, Act.20:8, Rev.4:5 8:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lampas, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2985 (λαμπάς) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
9 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
13 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.
And all the people perceived the thundering, and the flashes, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and all the people feared and stood afar off,
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So they showed him of her; and he came out before his tent with silver lamps going before him.
Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.
Then stood up Elijah the prophet as fire, And his word burned like a lamp.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2985.
And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.
And all the people perceived the thundering, and the flashes, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and all the people feared and stood afar off,
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:
and the three companies sounded with the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands their horns to sound with; and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gideon.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and everything was burned from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, And as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.
And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king’s house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.
and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.
in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Judah as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about: and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
So they showed him of her; and he came out before his tent with silver lamps going before him.
Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.
Then stood up Elijah the prophet as fire, And his word burned like a lamp.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2985, grouped by book.
Lampas (Strong's G2985) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lamp". lampas (lam-pas') n. 1. a "lamp" or flambeau [from G2989]
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G2985 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2985 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lamps, torches, lights, and lamp. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 13 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2985, with linked reader references where each row is available.