Topic
Lamp
35 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Proverbs 13:9Easton · Smith · Nave FIGURATIVE
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Exodus 25:37Easton · Smith
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
- Exodus 27:20Easton · Nave Kept burning at night in the tabernacle and cared for by priest
¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
- Judges 7:16Easton · Smith
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
- Judges 7:20Easton · Smith
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
- 2 Samuel 21:17Easton · Smith
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
- 1 Kings 7:49Easton · Smith
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
- 2 Chronicles 4:20Easton · Smith
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
- 2 Chronicles 13:11Easton · Smith
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of…
- Psalms 119:105Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
- Proverbs 20:20Smith · Nave FIGURATIVE
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Zechariah 4:2Easton · Smith
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
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- Matthew 25:1 Easton · Smith
- Genesis 15:17 Nave Miraculously appeared at Abraham's sacrifice
- Exodus 25:1–40 Nave For the tabernacle
- Exodus 27:21 Nave Kept burning at night in the tabernacle and cared for by priest
- Exodus 30:7 Smith
- Exodus 30:8 Smith
- Leviticus 24:2–4 Nave Kept burning at night in the tabernacle and cared for by priest
- Judges 15:4 Smith
- 1 Kings 11:36 Smith
- 1 Kings 15:4 Smith
- Job 18:6 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 132:17 Smith
- Proverbs 6:23 Easton
- Isaiah 62:1 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Jeremiah 25:10 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Zephaniah 1:12 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Matthew 5:15 Easton
- Matthew 6:22 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Mark 4:21 Easton
- 2 Peter 1:19 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Revelation 4:5 Nave SYMBOLICAL
- Revelation 8:10 Nave SYMBOLICAL
- Revelation 21:23 Nave FIGURATIVE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 15 references
(1.) That part of the candle-sticks of the tabernacle and the temple which bore the light (Ex. 25:37; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chr. 4:20; 13:11; Zech. 4:2). Their form is not described. Olive oil was generally burned in them (Ex. 27:20).
(2.) A torch carried by the soliders of Gideon (Judg. 7:16, 20). (R.V., “torches.”)
(3.) Domestic lamps (A.V., “candles”) were in common use among the Hebrews (Matt. 5:15; Mark 4:21, etc.).
(4.) Lamps or torches were used in connection with marriage ceremonies (Matt. 25:1).
This word is also frequently metaphorically used to denote life, welfare, guidance, etc. (2 Sam. 21:17; Ps. 119:105; Prov. 6:23; 13:9).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 17 references
- That part of the golden candlestick belonging to the tabernacle which bore the light; also of each of the ten candlesticks placed by Solomon in the temple before the holy of holies. (Exodus 25:37; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:20; 13:11; Zechariah 4:2) The lamps were lighted every evening and cleansed every morning. (Exodus 30:7,8)
- A torch or flambeau, such as was carried by the soldiers of Gideon. (Judges 7:16,20) comp. Judg 15:4 The use in marriage processions of lamps fed with oil is alluded to in the parable of the ten virgins. (Matthew 25:1) Modern Egyptian lamps consist of small glass vessels with a tube at the bottom containing a cotton wick twisted around a piece of straw. For night travelling, a lantern composed of waxed cloth strained over a sort of cylinder of wire rings, and a top and bottom of perforated copper. This would, in form at least, answer to the lamps within pitchers of Gideon. "The Hebrews, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as the modern Orientals, were accustomed to burn lamps all night. This custom, with the effect produced by their going out or being extinguished, supplies various figures to the sacred writers. (2 Samuel 21:17; Proverbs 13:9; 20:20) On the other hand, the keeping up of a lamp’s light is used as a symbol of enduring and unbroken succession. (1 Kings 11:36; 15:4; Psalms 132:17) " --McClintock and Strong.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 22 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Miraculously appeared at Abraham's sacrifice Ge 15:17
- → For the tabernacle Ex 25
- → Kept burning at night in the tabernacle and cared for by priest Ex 27:20,21; Le 24:2-4
- → FIGURATIVE Job 18:6; Ps 119:105; Pr 13:9; 20:20; Isa 62:1; Jer 25:10; Zep 1:12; Pr 13:9; 20:20; Isa 62:1; Jer 25:10; Zep 1:12; Mt 6:22; 2Pe 1:19; Re 21:23
- → SYMBOLICAL Re 4:5; 8:10
- See CANDLESTICK
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.