Lexicon :: Strong's H216 - 'ôr

Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them [alive].” They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” Then the priest said, “Let us approach God here.”

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s [fn]mood was joyous because he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

Is like the morning light when the sun rises,

A morning without clouds,

When the fresh grass springs out of the earth

Through sunshine after rain.’

Then they said one to another, “We are not doing the right thing. This is a day of good news, yet we are keeping silent. If we wait until the morning light, some punishment [for not reporting this now] will come on us. So now come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

“Let the stars of its early dawn be dark;

Let the morning wait in vain for the light,

Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning),

“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,

Like infants who never saw light.

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,

And life to the bitter in soul,

“He uncovers mysteries [that are difficult to grasp and understand] out of the darkness

And brings black gloom and the shadow of death into light.

“They grope in darkness without light,

And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”

“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;

‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,

And the flame of his fire will not shine.

“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,

And chased from the inhabited world.

“You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you;

And the light [of God’s favor] will shine upon your ways.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;

They do not want to know its ways

Nor stay in its paths.

“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;

They shut themselves up by day;

They do not know the light [of day].

“Is there any number to His [vast celestial] armies?

And upon whom does His light not rise?

“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters

At the boundary between light and darkness.

“Man dams up the streams from flowing [so that they do not trickle into the mine],

And what is hidden he brings out to the light.

When His lamp shone upon my head

And by His light I walked through darkness;

“I smiled at them when they did not believe,

And they did not diminish the light of my face.

“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];

And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

If I beheld the sun [as an object of worship] when it shone

Or the moon going in its splendor,

‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],

And my life shall see the light.’”

To bring his life back from the pit [of destruction],

That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],

And He covers the depths of the sea.

“He covers His hands with the lightning,

And commands it to strike the mark.

“He lets it loose under the whole heaven,

And His lightning to the ends of the earth.

“He loads the thick cloud with moisture;

He disperses the cloud of His lightning.

“Do you know how God establishes and commands them,

And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?

“Now people cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies [without being blinded],

When the wind has passed and cleared them.

“Their light is withheld from the wicked,

And the uplifted arm is broken.

“Where is the [fn]way where light dwells?

And as for darkness, where is its place,

“Where is the way that the light is distributed,

Or the east wind scattered over the earth?

“His sneezes flash forth light,

And his eyes are like the [reddish] eyelids of the dawn.

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”

Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

A Psalm of David.

The LORD is my light and my salvation—

Whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the refuge and fortress of my life—

Whom shall I dread?

For with You is the fountain of life [the fountain of life-giving water];

In Your light we see light.

He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light,

And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].