# H215 אוֹר

אוֹר (ʼôwr), Strong’s H215: to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically) KJV: [idiom] break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set…. Occurs 42…

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*ʼôwr* — to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)

KJV: [idiom] break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set…

Occurs 42 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אוֹר] 43 vb. be or become light
- Qal;—become light, shine of sun (esp. in early morn.)
- Niph.—become lighted up of day-break
- Hiph.—
- 1 give light, of sun, moon & stars
- 2 light up, cause to shine, shine
- 3 light a lamp
- 4 lighten, of the eyes
- 5 make shine, of face of God

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15) — and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17) — God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- [Genesis 44:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=3) — As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
- [Exodus 13:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=21) — The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to…
- [Exodus 14:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=20) — It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by…
- [Exodus 25:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=37) — You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
- [Numbers 6:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/6?v=25) — The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
- [Numbers 8:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/8?v=2) — “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
- [1 Samuel 14:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/14?v=29) — Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little…
- [1 Samuel 29:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/29?v=10) — Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you…