אוֹר ʼôwr

Meaning

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

In the King James Version: bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.

Derivation: from H215 (אוֹר);

Where it is used

• Psalms 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
• Psalms 136:7 He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalms 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
• Psalms 148:3 Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
• Proverbs 4:18 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• Proverbs 6:23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
• Proverbs 16:15 When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
• Ecclesiastes 2:13 And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
• Ecclesiastes 11:7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
• Isaiah 2:5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
• Isaiah 5:30 In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
• Isaiah 9:2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
• Isaiah 10:17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
• Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
• Isaiah 18:4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
• Isaiah 30:26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
• Isaiah 42:6 “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
• Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
• Isaiah 49:6 He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
• Isaiah 51:4 Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
• Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
• Isaiah 58:10 and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
• Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
• Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
• Isaiah 60:3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
• Isaiah 60:19 No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
• Isaiah 60:20 Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
• Jeremiah 4:23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
• Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
• Lamentations 3:2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
• Ezekiel 32:7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
• Ezekiel 32:8 All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
• Hosea 6:5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
• Amos 5:18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
• Amos 5:20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
• Amos 8:9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Micah 7:8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
• Micah 7:9 Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
• Habakkuk 3:4 His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
• Habakkuk 3:11 Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
• Zephaniah 3:5 The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Zechariah 14:6 On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
• Zechariah 14:7 It will be a unique day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.