Strong's #215: 'owr (pronounced ore)

a primitive root; to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically):--X break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set on fire, shine.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ôr

1) to be or become light, shine

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to become light (day)

1a2) to shine (of the sun)

1a3) to become bright

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be illuminated

1b2) to become lighted up

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to give light, shine (of sun, moon, and stars)

1c2) to illumine, light up, cause to shine, shine

1c3) to kindle, light (candle, wood)

1c4) lighten (of the eyes, his law, etc)

1c5) to make shine (of the face)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Genesis 1:15: "for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so."
Genesis 1:17: "set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,"
Genesis 44:3: "As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, and their asses."
Exodus 13:21: "and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:"
Exodus 14:20: "and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near"
Exodus 25:37: "the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against"
Numbers 6:25: "The LORD make his face shine upon"
Numbers 8:2: "the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick."
1 Samuel 14:27: "in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened."
1 Samuel 14:29: "I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this"
2 Samuel 2:32: "all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day."
Ezra 9:8: "us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little"
Nehemiah 9:12: "by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go."
Nehemiah 9:19: "them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go."
Job 33:30: "his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."
Job 41:32: "He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think to be hoary."
Psalms 13:3: "and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;"
Psalms 18:28: "For thou wilt light my candle: my God will enlighten my darkness."
Psalms 19:8: "the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes."
Psalms 31:16: "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: me for thy mercies'"
Psalms 67:1: "be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah."
Psalms 76:4: "Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains"
Psalms 77:18: "of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook."
Psalms 80:3: "Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine;"
Psalms 80:7: "O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved."
Psalms 80:19: "God of hosts, to shine; and we shall be saved."
Psalms 97:4: "His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth and trembled."
Psalms 105:39: "a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night."
Psalms 118:27: "God is the LORD, which hath showed us light: bind with cords, even unto the horns"
Psalms 119:130: "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding"
Psalms 119:135: "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach thy statutes."
Psalms 139:12: "not thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light"
Proverbs 4:18: "of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."
Proverbs 29:13: "man meet together: lighteneth both their eyes."
Ecclesiastes 8:1: "a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed."
Isaiah 27:11: "they shall be broken off: the women and set them on fire: for it is a people of no"
Isaiah 60:1: "Arise, shine; for thy light and the glory of the LORD is risen"
Isaiah 60:19: "neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light,"
Ezekiel 32:7: "the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
Ezekiel 43:2: "was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory."
Daniel 9:17: "the prayer and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate,"
Malachi 1:10: "among you that would shut the doors do ye kindle fire on mine altar for naught. I have no pleasure"