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Strong's #216: 'owr (pronounced ore)

from 215; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):--bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ôr

1) light

1a) light of day

1b) light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars)

1c) day-break, dawn, morning light

1d) daylight

1e) lightning

1f) light of lamp

1g) light of life

1h) light of prosperity

1i) light of instruction

1j) light of face (figuratively)

1k) Jehovah as Israel' s light

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H215



Usage:

This word is used 122 times:

Isaiah 60:19: "unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."
Isaiah 60:20: "the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."
Jeremiah 4:23: "and void; and the heavens, and they had no light."
Jeremiah 13:16: "the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness."
Jeremiah 25:10: "of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle."
Jeremiah 31:35: "the LORD, the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars"
Jeremiah 31:35: "and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves"
Lamentations 3:2: "me, and brought me into darkness, into light."
Ezekiel 32:7: "the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
Ezekiel 32:8: "All the bright lights will I make dark over thee, and set darkness"
Hosea 6:5: "them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth."
Amos 5:18: "of the LORD is darkness, and not light."
Amos 5:20: "of the LORD and not light? even very dark, and no brightness"
Amos 8:9: "at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:"
Micah 2:1: "upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power"
Micah 7:8: "I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light"
Micah 7:9: "and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness."
Habakkuk 3:4: "And his brightness was as the light; coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding"
Habakkuk 3:11: "and moon stood still at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering"
Zephaniah 3:5: "every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust"
Zechariah 14:6: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:"
Zechariah 14:7: "that at evening time it shall be light."









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