The noun astēr (star) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament)


Matthew

2: 2asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star (astēr) at its rising, and have come to pay him homage."
2: 7Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star (astēr) had appeared.
2: 9When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star (astēr) that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was.
2: 10When they saw that the star (astēr) had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.
24: 29"Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars (astēr) will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Mark

13: 25and the stars (astēr) will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

1 Corinthians

15: 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars (astēr); indeed, star (astēr) differs from star (astēr) in glory.

Jude

1: 13wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars (astēr), for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

Revelation

1: 16In his right hand he held seven stars (astēr), and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.
1: 20As for the mystery of the seven stars (astēr) that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars (astēr) are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
2: 1"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars (astēr) in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
2: 28even as I also received authority from my Father. To the one who conquers I will also give the morning star (astēr).
3: 1"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars (astēr): "I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.
6: 13and the stars (astēr) of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
8: 10The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star (astēr) fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
8: 11The name of the star (astēr) is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter.
8: 12The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars (astēr), so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining, and likewise the night.
9: 1And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star (astēr) that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit;
12: 1A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars (astēr).
12: 4His tail swept down a third of the stars (astēr) of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.
22: 16"It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star (astēr)."