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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 [fn]and the darkness.

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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 regulate day and 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 - And for three days no man saw his brother, and no man rose up from his bed for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson is come hither: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will slay him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - And the woman came toward morning, and fell down at the door of the house where her husband was, until it was light.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines this night, and let us plunder among them till the day break, and let us not leave a man among them. And they said, Do all that is good in thy sight: and the priest said, Let us draw nigh hither to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing thee harm, if thou hadst not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall surely not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in his house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal was merry [fn]within him, and he was very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - And David rose up and all the people with him, and they passed over Jordan till the morning light; there was not one missing who did not pass over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - And one man said to his neighbour, We are not doing well thus: this day is a day of glad tidings, and we hold our peace, and are waiting till the morning light, and shall find mischief: now then come, and let us go into the city, and report to the house of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - And he read in it from the time of sun-rise to the middle of the day, before the men and the women; and they understood it, and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 - His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - Let one drive him from light into darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28 - And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon thy paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their appointed paths?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - He has hidden the light in his hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 - And if a cloud obscures what is precious to him, his light will disperse the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 - We know that God has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - But the light is not visible to all: it shines afar off in the heavens, as that which is from him in the clouds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:18 - (LXX 41:10) At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:6 - (LXX 4:7) Many say, Who will shew us good things? the light of thy countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - (LXX 26:1) A Psalm of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:9 - (LXX 35:10) For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6 - (LXX 36:6) And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

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