Lexicon :: Strong's H216 - 'ôr

Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let’s wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines tonight and plunder them until morning. Don’t let even one remain! ”

“Do whatever you want,” the troops replied.

But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

“Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males[fn] left by morning light.”

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal’s heart was cheerful,[fn] and he was very drunk, so she didn’t say anything[fn] to him until morning light.

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.

“is like the morning light when the sun rises

on a cloudless morning,

the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

Then they said to each other, “We’re not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our punishment will catch up with us. So let’s go tell the king’s household.”

While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate, he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively[fn] to the book of the law.

May its morning stars grow dark.

May it wait for daylight but have none;

may it not see the breaking[fn] of dawn.

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,

like infants who never see daylight?

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,

and life to those whose existence is bitter,

He reveals mysteries from the darkness

and brings the deepest darkness into the light.

They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

They turned night into day

and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;

the flame of his fire does not glow.

He is driven from light to darkness

and chased from the inhabited world.

When you make a decision, it will be carried out,[fn]

and light will shine on your ways.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.

They do not recognize its ways

or stay on its paths.

In the dark they break[fn] into houses;

by day they lock themselves in,[fn]

never experiencing the light.

Can his troops be numbered?

Does his light not shine on everyone?

He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

He dams up the streams from flowing[fn]

so that he may bring to light what is hidden.

when his lamp shone above my head,

and I walked through darkness by his light!

If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;

they were thrilled at[fn] the light of my countenance.

But when I hoped for good, evil came;

when I looked for light, darkness came.

if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining

or at the moon moving in splendor,

“He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,

and I will continue to see the light.”

in order to turn him back from the Pit,

so he may shine with the light of life.

See how he spreads his lightning around him

and covers the depths of the sea.

He covers his hands with lightning

and commands it to hit its mark.

He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;

his lightning to the ends of the earth.

He saturates clouds with moisture;

he scatters his lightning through them.

Do you know how God directs his clouds

or makes their lightning flash?

Now no one can even look at the sun

after a wind has swept through and cleared the sky.

Light[fn] is withheld from the wicked,

and the arm raised in violence is broken.

Where is the road to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness lives,

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[fn]

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

His snorting[fn] flashes with light,

while his eyes are like the rays[fn] of dawn.

Many are asking, “Who can show us anything good? ”

Let the light of your face shine on us, LORD.

The LORD is my light and my salvation —

whom should I fear?

The LORD is the stronghold of my life —

whom should I dread?

For the wellspring of life is with you.

By means of your light we see light.

making your righteousness shine like the dawn,

your justice like the noonday.