Radiant
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Emitted or transmitted by radiation; as, a radiant energy; radiant heat.
(2): ( a.) Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.
(3): ( a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; - said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
(4): ( a.) Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
(5): ( a.) Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
(6): ( a.) Giving off rays; - said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.
(7): ( n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.
(8): ( n.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
(9): ( n.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
rā´di - ant ( נהר , nāhar , "to sparkle" i.e. ( figurative ) be cheerful; hence (from the sheen of a running stream), to flow, i.e. ( figurative ) assemble; flow (together), be lightened): the American Standard Revised Version substitutes the active "radiant" for the passive "were lightened" in Psalm 34:5; Isaiah 60:5 (English Revised Version, the King James Version "flow together"). As the earth and moon, both being dark, face a common sun and lighten each other, they are not only lightened, but radiant. So with the believers, "They looked unto him (Yahweh), and were radiant." Thus nāhar combines the two ideas of being lightened and flowing together . This appears, also, in a different connection, in Isaiah 60:5 , "Then thou shalt see and be radiant." "It is liquid light - light that ripples and sparkles and runs across the face;... the light which a face catches from sparkling water" (G.A. Smith, Isaiah , II, 430).
