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Lexicon :: Strong's H216 - 'ôr

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אוֹר
Transliteration
'ôr
Pronunciation
ore
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 52a

Strong’s Definitions

אוֹר ʼôwr, ore; from H215; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):—bright, clear, day, light (-ning), morning, sun.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 123x

The KJV translates Strong's H216 in the following manner: light(s) (114x), day (2x), bright (1x), clear (1x), flood (1x), herbs (1x), lightning (1x), morning (1x), sun (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 123x
The KJV translates Strong's H216 in the following manner: light(s) (114x), day (2x), bright (1x), clear (1x), flood (1x), herbs (1x), lightning (1x), morning (1x), sun (1x).

  1. light

    1. light of day

    2. light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars)

    3. day-break, dawn, morning light

    4. daylight

    5. lightning

    6. light of lamp

    7. light of life

    8. light of prosperity

    9. light of instruction

    10. light of face (fig.)

    11. Jehovah as Israel's light

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אוֹר ʼôwr, ore; from H215; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):—bright, clear, day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
STRONGS H216: Abbreviations
אוֺר 121 noun masculineGenesis 1:3 (feminineJob 36:32; Jeremiah 13:16) light (Assyrian urru = ûru Dlw). — absolute Genesis 1:3 +; construct Judges 16:2 +; suffix אוֺרִי Psalm 27:1, etc.; plural אוֺרִים Psalm 136:7; —
1. light as diffused in nature, light of day Genesis 1:3, 4, 5 (P) Job 3:9; Job 38:19 +.
2. morning light, dawn, אוֺר הַבֹּקֶר light of the morning Judges 16:2; 1 Samuel 14:36; 1 Samuel 25:34, 36; 2 Samuel 17:22; 2 Kings 7:9; Micah 2:1; בֹּקֶר א׳ 2 Samuel 23:4 (poem of David); עַד־הָא׳ Judges 19:26 (compare עַד־הַבֹּקֶר Judges 19:25); לָאוֺר Job 24:14; מִן־הָאוֺר עַד מַחֲצִית הַיּוֺם from dawn till mid-day, Nehemiah 8:3 compare Proverbs 4:18.
3. light of the heavenly luminaries; הַלְּבָנָה א׳, || הַחַמָּה א׳ moonlight & sunlight Isaiah 30:26; כּוֺכְבֵי אוֺר stars of light Psalm 148:3; מְאוֺרֵי אוֺר luminaries of light Ezekiel 32:8; אוֺרִים = מְאוֺרִים Psalm 136:7; so עֲלֵי־אוֺר in sunshine Isaiah 18:4; the sun itself Job 31:26.
4. daylight אוֺר רְשָׁעִים light of the wicked Job 38:15 (their work-day being the night); יוֺם אוֺר a day of light Amos 8:9 (= a clear, sunshiny day).
5. lightning Job 36:32; Job 37:3, 11, 15 compare Habakkuk 3:11.
6. light of lamp Proverbs 13:9; Jeremiah 25:10; of crocodile's hot breath Job 41:10.
7. light of life חַיִּים א׳ Job 33:30; Psalm 56:14 [Psalm 56:13]; compare אוֺר Job 3:16, 20.
8. light of prosperity Job 22:28; Job 30:26; Psalm 97:11; Lamentations 3:2.
9. light of instruction נֵר מִצְוָה וְתוֺרָה אוֺר Proverbs 6:23 the commandment is a lamp and instruction a light; so the Messianic servant is אוֺר גּוֺיִם Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6; compare עַמִּים א׳ Isaiah 51:4; the advent of Messiah is shining of great light Isaiah 9:1 (twice in verse).
10. light of face פָּנִים אוֺר = bright, cheerful face (of men) Job 29:24; betokening king's favour Proverbs 16:15 (compare עֵינַיִם א׳ Psalm 38:11); of God = his shining, enlightening, favouring face Psalm 4:7; Psalm 44:4; Psalm 89:16.
11. Yahweh is יִשְׂרָאֵל א׳ Isaiah 10:17, as source enlightenment & prosperity; light & salvation Psalm 27:1; light to guide Micah 7:8 compare Psalm 43:3; everlasting light of Zion, instead of sun & moon Isaiah 60:19, 20; house of Jacob is to walk in his light Isaiah 2:5.

אֹר see אוֺר, for Amos 8:8 see H2975 יְאֹר.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:3; 1:3; 1:3; 1:4; 1:5

Judges

16:2; 16:2; 19:25; 19:26

1 Samuel

14:36; 25:34; 25:36

2 Samuel

17:22; 23:4

2 Kings

7:9

Nehemiah

8:3

Job

3:9; 3:16; 3:20; 22:28; 24:14; 29:24; 30:26; 31:26; 33:30; 36:32; 36:32; 37:3; 37:11; 37:15; 38:15; 38:19; 41:10

Psalms

4:7; 27:1; 27:1; 38:11; 43:3; 44:4; 56:13; 89:16; 97:11; 136:7; 136:7; 148:3

Proverbs

4:18; 6:23; 13:9; 16:15

Isaiah

2:5; 9:1; 10:17; 18:4; 30:26; 42:6; 49:6; 51:4; 60:19; 60:20

Jeremiah

13:16; 25:10

Lamentations

3:2

Ezekiel

32:8

Amos

8:8; 8:9

Micah

2:1; 7:8

Habakkuk

3:11

H216

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Strong's Number H216 matches the Hebrew אוֹר ('ôr),
which occurs 121 times in 110 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 1:3–Psa 37:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:3 - God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Yisra'el had light in their dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - It was told the `Azati, saying, Shimshon is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Let be until morning light, then we will kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Sha'ul said, Let us go down after the Pelishtim by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the Kohen, Let us draw near here to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Naval by the morning light so much as one man-child.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - Avigayil came to Naval; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Yarden: by the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Yarden.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the eretz, Through clear shining after rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our shalom: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 - The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28 - You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, And to the confines of light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - He binds the streams that they don't trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon moving in splendor,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, My life shall see the light.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 - Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 - Do you know how God controls them, And causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, But the wind passes, and clears them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the eretz?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:18 - His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:6 - Many say, "Who will show us any good?" LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - By David. The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:9 - For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6 - He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.

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