Ephesians 5:8

New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data

"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"

Word-by-Word Analysis

For ye were

אֱלֹהִים

ʼĕlôhîym

H430

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...

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חֹשֶׁךְ

chôshek

H2822

the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

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but now are ye

אוֹר

ʼôwr

H216

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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in the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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as

בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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of

אוֹר

ʼôwr

H216

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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Key Terms in This Verse

sometimes H430

אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...

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darkness H2822

חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek

the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

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walk H3212

יָלַךְ yâlak

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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light H216

אוֹר ʼôwr

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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light H216

אוֹר ʼôwr

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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children H1121

בֵּן bên

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)

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Lord H3068

יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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Cross References

John 8:12 cross-reference

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:46 cross-reference

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

Acts 26:18 cross-reference

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith t...

Colossians 1:13 cross-reference

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Ephesians 4:18 cross-reference

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

John 12:36 cross-reference

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

Isaiah 9:2 cross-reference

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Ephesians 2:2 cross-reference

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Isaiah 2:5 cross-reference

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Jeremiah 13:16 cross-reference

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross da...

2 Corinthians 4:6 cross-reference

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Luke 16:8 cross-reference

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

2 Corinthians 3:18 cross-reference

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

Titus 3:3 cross-reference

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Ephesians 6:12 cross-reference

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Luke 1:79 cross-reference

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Romans 2:19 cross-reference

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

Isaiah 49:9 cross-reference

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Matthew 4:16 cross-reference

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

1 Corinthians 1:30 cross-reference

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

2 Corinthians 6:14 cross-reference

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

John 1:9 cross-reference

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Isaiah 49:6 cross-reference

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou...

Isaiah 42:16 cross-reference

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do ...

Galatians 5:25 cross-reference

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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