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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 - And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:5

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place, for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was told the Gazathites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning light we will kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - And 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. And they said, Do whatsoever is good in thy sight. Then said the priest, Let us come near hither to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - And they said one to another, We are not doing right; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, the iniquity will find us out; and now 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 - And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that 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 its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

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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 that have not seen the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into 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, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He is 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 - And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - When his lamp shone over 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 - If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and 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 - Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 - Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 - Dost thou know how God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:18 - His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:6 - Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - {A Psalm of David.} Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah 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 thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6 - and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

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