2 Corinthians 4:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ὁ εἰπών, ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψαι, ὃς ἔλαμψεν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν, πρὸς φωτισμὸν τῆς γνώσεως τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν προσώπῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

Because the Theos the eipōn, out of skotous phōs lampsai, who elampsen in the kardiais hēmōn, pros phōtismon tēs gnōseōs tēs doxēs tou Theou en prosōpō Iēsou Christou.

Grammar Details

• *Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God/deity
• *eipōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having said/spoken
• *skotous*: genitive neuter singular - darkness
• *phōs*: accusative neuter singular - light
• *lampsai*: aorist active infinitive - to shine
• *elampsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - shone/has shined
• *kardiais*: dative feminine plural - hearts
• *hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person plural pronoun - our/of us
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - toward/for
• *phōtismon*: accusative masculine singular - illumination/light
• *gnōseōs*: genitive feminine singular - knowledge
• *doxēs*: genitive feminine singular - glory
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *en prosōpō*: dative neuter singular - in face/presence
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive masculine singular - of Jesus Christ

Word Meanings

• *eipōn*: having said/spoken/commanded
• *skotous*: darkness/obscurity
• *phōs*: light/radiance
• *lampsai*: to shine/give light
• *kardiais*: hearts/inner selves/minds
• *phōtismon*: illumination/light/brightness
• *gnōseōs*: knowledge/understanding
• *prosōpō*: face/countenance/presence/person

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:2 : 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
• 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until {G3757} the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Gen 1:3 : 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• Isa 40:5 : 5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
• John 11:40 : 40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
• John 12:41 : 41 These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him.
• John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; {G2532} how sayest thou, Show us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father {G3588} abiding in me doeth his works.
• Acts 7:55-56 : 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
• Gen 1:14-15 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
• Exod 33:18-23 : 18 And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live. 21 And Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: 22 and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by: 23 and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back; but my face shall not be seen.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; 7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
• Ps 90:16 : 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children.
• Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him that made great lights; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 9 The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
• Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
• Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
• Heb 1:3 : 3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had {G1223} {G1438} made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
• Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
• Phil 2:6 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
• Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• Isa 6:1-3 : 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
• Isa 35:2 : 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save {G3361} the Father; and who the Father is, save {G3361} the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him].
• Ps 63:2 : 2 So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory.