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Lexicon :: Strong's H216 - 'ôr

Aa
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 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 - The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28 - Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 - The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 - Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:18 - His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:6 - There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:9 - For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6 - And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

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