Quick Definition
the sun, sunlight
Strong's Definition
perhaps akin to the alternate of G138 (αἱρέομαι)); the sun; by implication, light
Derivation: from (a ray;
KJV Usage: + east, sun
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἥλιος, ἡλίου, ὁ (often anarthrous, Winers Grammar, 120 (114); Buttmann, 89 (78)) (ἕλη (root us to burn, cf. Curtius, § 612)); the Sept. for ωΖΡξΖωΡ; the sun: Mat_5:45; Mat_13:43; Mar_13:24; Luk_4:40; Luk_21:25; Act_26:13; 1Co_15:41; Rev_1:16, etc. equivalent to the rays of the sun, Rev_7:16; equivalent to the light of day: μή βλέπων τόν ἥλιον, of a blind man, Act_13:11.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἥλιος hēlios 32x
the sun, Mat_13:43 ; Mat_17:2 ; Mar_1:32 ; meton. light of the sun, light, Act_13:11 sun.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἥλιος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H8121 ;]
the sun: with art. (El., § 46, 5), Mat_5:45 ; Mat_13:43 ; Mat_17:2 ; Mat_24:29 , Mar_1:32 ; Mar_4:6 ; Mar_13:24 ; Mar_16:2 , Luk_4:40 , Act_2:20 ( LXX ) Act_26:13 , Eph_4:26 , Jas_1:11 , Rev_1:16 ; Rev_6:12 ; Rev_8:12 ; Rev_9:2 ; Rev_10:1 ; Rev_12:1 ; Rev_16:8 ; Rev_19:17 ; Rev_21:23 ; βλέπειν τὸν ἥ ., Act_13:11 ; οὐδὲ μὴ πέσῃ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ὁ ἥ ., Rev_7:16 ; without art., Mat_13:6 , Luk_21:25 ; Luk_23:45 , Act_27:20 , 1Co_15:41 , Rev_7:2 ; Rev_16:12 ; Rev_22:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἥλιος [page 279]
P Hib I. 27 .80 (a calendar B.C. 301 240) ἔλεγεν δὲ [δύο ] τ̣ὰς πορείας εἶναι τοῦ ἡλίου μία ( l. μίαν ) μὲν τὴν διορίζουσαν νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν μία ( l. μίαν ) δὲ τὴν διορίζουσαν χιμῶνα καὶ θέρος , he said that the courses of the sun were two, one dividing night and day and one dividing winter and summer (Edd.), P Petr III. 144 iv. 20 (B.C. 246) ἡλίου περὶ καταφορὰν ὄντος , at sunset, P Oxy IV. 725 .12 (A.D. 183) ἀπὸ ἀν [ατολῆς ] ἡ [λίου ] μέχρι δύσεως , and an astronomical dialogue of iii/A.D., P Ryl II. 63 .4 , where in answer to a question regarding certain εἴδωλα , it is replied Ἥλι̣ο̣ς [ἐσ ]τ̣ι̣ν̣ δεξιὸς ὀφθαλμός , Σελήνη ὁ εὐώνυμος : see also the ii/B.C. papyrus of the astronomer Eudoxus, καθ᾽ ὃν ὁ ἥλιος φερόμενος τὴν μὲν ἡμέραν βραχυτέραν ποιεῖ τὴν δὲ νύκτα μακροτέραν . Two instances may be added from the inscrr., Michel 466 .10 (iii/B.C.) ἅμα τῶι ἡλίωι [ἀν ]ατέλλοντι , ib. 1357 .10 (B.C. 300 299) ἡλίου ἀνιόντος ὁδός . For the late ἡλιαστήριον , a place for sunning oneself, cf. P Ryl II. 206 .48 (late iii/A.D.), and the introduction to P Oxy VII. 1014 : also for a literary ex. ib. VI. 985. In MGr ἥλιος is found also in the form νήλιος , the ν having been carried over from a preceding word owing to a mistaken separation of words : see Thumb Handbook , p. 25, and cf. newt, nickname, also Fr. lierre (Lat. hedera ).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἥλιος ἥλιος, ὁ, "the sun", Lat. sol, Hom. , etc.; ὁρᾶν φάος ἠελίοιο, i.e. to be alive, Il. —The Sun furnished the earliest mode of determining the points of the heaven, πρὸς ἠῶ τ᾽ ἠέλιόν τε, i. e. towards the "East", opp. to πρὸς ζόφον, Hom. ; πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἡλίου ἀνατολάς, opp. to πρὸς ἑσπέρην, Hdt. "day, a day", like Lat. soles, Pind. , Eur. : so in pl. "hot sunny days", Thuc. as prop. n., "Helios, the sun-god", Hom. ; in later Poets = Apollo, Aesch. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἥλιος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁמֶשׁ ;]
the sun: with art. (El., § 46, 5), Mat.5:45 13:43 17:2 24:29, Mrk.1:32 4:6 13:24 16:2, Luk.4:40, Act.2:20" (LXX) Act.26:13, Eph.4:26, Jas.1:11, Rev.1:16 6:12 8:12 9:2 10:1 12:1 16:8 19:17 21:23; βλέπειν τὸν ἥ., Act.13:11; οὐδὲ μὴ πέσῃ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ὁ ἥ., Rev.7:16; without art., Mat.13:6, Luk.21:25 23:45, Act.27:20, 1Co.15:41, Rev.7:2 16:12 22:5.†
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