Lexicon :: Strong's H5216 - nîr

“Make its seven lamps, and set them up so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

“You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly.

“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on it; he must burn it every morning when he tends the lamps.

“the lampstand for light with its utensils and lamps as well as the oil for the light;

He also made its seven lamps, snuffers, and firepans of pure gold.

the pure gold lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

“Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly.

“He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the LORD’s presence.

“They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, with its lamps, snuffers, and firepans, as well as its jars of oil by which they service it.

“Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.”

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle. You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

LORD, you are my lamp;

the LORD illuminates my darkness.

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

“I will give one tribe to his son, so that my servant David will always have a lamp[fn] before me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for myself to put my name there.

But for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp[fn] in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.

For the sake of his servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since he had promised to give a lamp[fn] to David and his sons forever.

the weight of the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps; the weight of each silver lampstand and its lamps, according to the service of each lampstand;

the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary according to specifications;

“They offer a burnt offering and fragrant incense to the LORD every morning and every evening, and they set the rows of the Bread of the Presence on the ceremonially clean table. They light the lamps of the gold lampstand every evening. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have abandoned him.

but for the sake of the covenant the LORD had made with David, he was unwilling to destroy the house of David since the LORD had promised to give a lamp[fn] to David and to his sons forever.

“They also closed the doors of the portico, extinguished the lamps, did not burn incense, and did not offer burnt offerings in the holy place of the God of Israel.

The light in his tent grows dark,

and the lamp beside him is put out.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?

Does disaster[fn] come on them?

Does he apportion destruction in his anger?

when his lamp shone above my head,

and I walked through darkness by his light!

LORD, you light my lamp;

my God illuminates my darkness.

Your word is a lamp for my feet

and a light on my path.

“There I will make a horn grow for David;

I have prepared a lamp[fn] for my anointed one.

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,

and corrective discipline is the way to life.

The light of the righteous shines brightly,

but the lamp of the wicked is put out.

Whoever curses his father or mother ​— ​

his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

The LORD’s lamp sheds light on a person’s life,[fn]

searching the innermost parts.[fn]

For the evil have no future;

the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

She sees that her profits are good,

and her lamp never goes out at night.

“I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them ​— ​the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps

and punish those who settle down comfortably,[fn]

who say to themselves:

The LORD will do nothing ​— ​good or bad.

He asked me, “What do you see? ”

I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. The lampstand also has seven lamps at the top with seven spouts for each of[fn] the lamps.