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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 2 / 3 (Psa 38:10–Amo 5:18)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:10 - My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light H216 of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:3 - O send out thy light H216 and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:3 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light H216 of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:19 - He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. H216

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light H216 of the living?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:14 - In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light H216 of fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:15 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light H216 of thy countenance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:11 - Light H216 is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:2 - Who coverest thyself with light H216 as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:4 - Unto the upright there ariseth light H216 in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:105

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:105 - NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light H216 unto my path.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:7 - To him that made great lights: H216 for his mercy endureth for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:11 - If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light H216 about me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. H216

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:18 - But the path of the just is as the shining light, H216 that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:23 - For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; H216 and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:9 - The light H216 of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:15 - In the light H216 of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light H216 excelleth darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:7 - Truly the light H216 is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - While the sun, or the light, H216 or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:5 - O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light H216 of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, H216 and light H216 for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light H216 is darkened in the heavens thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: H216 they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light H216 shined.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - And the light H216 of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: H216 the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light H216 to shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:4 - For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, H216 and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - Moreover the light H216 of the moon shall be as the light H216 of the sun, and the light H216 of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light H216 of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:6 - I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light H216 of the Gentiles;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:16 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light H216 before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - I form the light, H216 and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light H216 to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:4 - Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light H216 of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:8 - Then shall thy light H216 break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light H216 rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:9 - Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, H216 but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:1 - Arise, shine; for thy light H216 is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:3 - And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, H216 and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:19 - The sun shall be no more thy light H216 by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light H216 unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, H216 and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. H216

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, H216 he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10 - Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light H216 of the candle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light H216 by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light H216 by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 - He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. H216

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. H216

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:8 - All the bright lights H216 of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:5 - Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light H216 that goeth forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. H216

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