# H216 אוֹר

אוֹר (ʼôwr), Strong’s H216: illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.) KJV: bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.. Occurs 120 times.

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

KJV: bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.

Derived from [אוֹר ʼôwr](https://besorah.bible/word/H215) (to be)

Occurs 120 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אוֹר 121 n.m. light
- 1 light as diffused in nature, light of day
- 2 morning light, dawn
- 3 light of the heavenly luminaries
- 4 daylight
- 5 lightning
- 6 light of lamp
- 7 light of life
- 8 light of prosperity
- 9 light of instruction
- 10 light of face
- 11 Yahweh

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=3) — God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- [Genesis 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4) — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5) — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- [Genesis 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18) — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- [Exodus 10:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=23) — They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in…
- [Judges 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=2) — The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city…
- [Judges 19:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=26) — Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until…
- [1 Samuel 14:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/14?v=36) — Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s…
- [1 Samuel 25:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=34) — For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come…
- [1 Samuel 25:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=36) — Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry…