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    Selene

    seh-LEE-nee

    Meaning

    Moon; Radiance; Brightness

    Greek origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Selene calls believers to be like the moon — radiating borrowed light from the Son into the world's deepest darkness.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Ye are the light of the world... Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

    Matthew 5:14-16

    “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.”

    Philippians 2:15

    Most used in the 1990s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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