Strong’s G2463 · Greek
ἶρις
îris · ee'-ris
Origin perhaps from ἐρέω (G2046) (as a symbol of the female messenger of the pagan deities);
Meaning a rainbow ("iris")
In the King James Version rainbow.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Revelation 4:3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
- Revelation 10:1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.