STRONGS G797:
ἀστράπτω; (later form
στράπτω, see
ἀσπάζομαι at the beginning [probably allied with
ἀστήρ which see]);
to lighten (Homer, Iliad 9, 237; 17, 595, and often in Attic):
Luke 17:24. of dazzling objects:
ἐσθής (R G
ἐσθήσεις),
Luke 24:4 (and very often in Greek writings from Sophocles Oed. Col. 1067; Euripides, Phoen. 111, down). [Compare:
ἐξ-,
περιαστράπτω.]
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