Strongs's #3974: ma'owr - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #3974: ma'owr (pronounced maw-ore')

or maor {maw-ore'}; also (in plural) feminine mpowrah {meh-o-raw'}; or morah {meh-o-raw'}; from 215; properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e. (abstractly) light (as an element): figuratively, brightness, i.e.cheerfulness; specifically, a chandelier:--bright, light.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâ'ôr / me'ôrâh

1) light, luminary

Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H215

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

Genesis 1:14: "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide"
Genesis 1:15: "And let them be for lights in the firmament to give light upon the earth: and it was"
Genesis 1:16: "great lights; the greater light to rule"
Genesis 1:16: "lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light"
Genesis 1:16: "to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars"
Exodus 25:6: "Oil for the light, spices oil, and for sweet incense,"
Exodus 27:20: "thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always."
Exodus 35:8: "And oil for the light, and spices oil, and for the sweet incense,"
Exodus 35:14: "The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, with the oil for the light,"
Exodus 35:14: "and his furniture, with the oil for the light,"
Exodus 35:28: "And spice, and oil for the light, oil, and for the sweet incense."
Exodus 39:37: "and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,"
Leviticus 24:2: "oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually."
Numbers 4:9: "the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his censers, and all"
Numbers 4:16: "the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering,"
Psalms 74:16: "also hast prepared the light and the sun."
Psalms 90:8: "our iniquities before sins in the light of thy countenance."
Proverbs 15:30: " The light of the eyes rejoiceth and a good report maketh the bones fat."
Ezekiel 32:8: "All the bright lights will I make dark over thee, and set darkness"

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