Word study

Shone

3 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “shone”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “shone” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • יָפַע yâphashine out or forth, send out beams, cause to shinetranslated this way 1 time of its 8 uses · Strong’s H3313Verb  ·  Translated: shine forth 2

    Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

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  • הָלַל hâlalshinetranslated this way 1 time of its 165 uses · Strong’s H1984Verb  ·  Translated: praise 65, Hallelujah 24, praised 14, boast 9

    Job 29:3 when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

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  • אוֹר ôrbe or become lighttranslated this way 1 time of its 40 uses · Strong’s H215Verb  ·  Translated: shine 12, light 6, lit 2, gives light 2

    Ezekiel 43:2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • λάμπω lámpōI shinetranslated this way 2 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s G2989Verb  ·  Translated: shine 2, shone 2, gives light 1, lights 1

    Matthew 17:2 There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

    Acts 12:7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

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  • περιλάμπω perilámpōI shine aroundtranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4034Verb  ·  Translated: shone around 1, shining around 1

    Luke 2:9 Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.