LIGHT-BRINGER, the MORNING STAR — phōs, 'light', + pherō, 'to bring, bear': the bringer of light, the name Greek gave the planet Venus when it rises just before dawn as the last star before day. ⚠ It occurs only at 2 Peter 1:19, of the prophetic word as a lamp shining 'until the day dawns and the phōsphoros rises in your hearts' — the morning star as an image of Christ's return, or of his dawning within the believer. The Latin for the same planet is LUCIFER ('light-bearer'), which is why the word has an odd afterlife: Isaiah 14:12's taunt against the king of Babylon, 'How you have fallen, O Day Star (Hebrew hêlēl)', was rendered Lucifer in the Vulgate and later read as the devil's name — but the Greek phōsphoros here is pure and bright, met from the far end by the risen Christ's own promise of 'the morning star' (Revelation 2:28). KJV 'the day star.' → first discussed at 2 Peter 1:19