λύχνος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for נֵר (Ex 25:36 (37), al.);]
a lamp (portable, and usually set on a stand, λυχνία): Mt 5:15, Lk 11:36; ἔρχεται ὁ λ., Mk 4:21; λ. ἅπτειν, Lk 8:1611:3315:8; φῶς λύχνου, Re 18:23; id. opp. to φ. ἡλίου, Re 22:5; metaph., of the eye, Mt 6:22, Lk 11:34; of John the Baptist, Jo 5:35; of the Lamb, Re 21:23; of prophecy, II Pe 1:19; of spiritual readiness, pl., λύχνοι (as always in LXX; freq. in Att. λύχνα), Lk 12:35.†
SYN.: λαμπάς, q.v.