# אוֹר (or)

Israeli respelling: or. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H216. 110 Old Testament occurrences.

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

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

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/or-h216

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/3) — And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
- [Genesis 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/4) — And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/5) — And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- [Genesis 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/18) — And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
- [Exodus 10:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/23) — They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
- [Judges 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/2) — And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the c…
- [Judges 19:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/26) — Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.
- [1 Samuel 14:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/36) — And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. A…
- [1 Samuel 25:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/34) — For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me…
- [1 Samuel 25:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/36) — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for…
- [2 Samuel 17:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/22) — Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them tha…
- [2 Samuel 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/4) — And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the e…
- [2 Kings 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/9) — Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light…
- [Nehemiah 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/3) — And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those…
- [Job 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/9) — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- [Job 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/16) — Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- [Job 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/20) — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- [Job 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/22) — He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
- [Job 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/25) — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- [Job 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/12) — They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
- [Job 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/5) — Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
- [Job 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/6) — The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- [Job 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/18) — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- [Job 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/28) — Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
- [Job 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/13) — They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
- [Job 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/14) — The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
- [Job 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/16) — In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- [Job 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/25/3) — Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
- [Job 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/10) — He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- [Job 28:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/11) — He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
- [Job 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/3) — When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- [Job 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/24) — If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- [Job 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/26) — When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- [Job 31:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/26) — If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- [Job 33:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/28) — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- [Job 33:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/30) — To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
- [Job 36:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/30) — Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- [Job 36:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/32) — With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
- [Job 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/3) — He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
- [Job 37:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/11) — Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
- [Job 37:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/15) — Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
- [Job 37:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/21) — And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
- [Job 38:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/15) — And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
- [Job 38:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/19) — Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
- [Job 38:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/24) — By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
- [Job 41:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/18) — By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- [Psalms 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/6) — There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
- [Psalms 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/1) — The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- [Psalms 36:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/9) — For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
- [Psalms 37:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/6) — And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
- [Psalms 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/10) — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
- [Psalms 43:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/43/3) — O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
- [Psalms 44:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/3) — For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the…
- [Psalms 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/19) — He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
- [Psalms 56:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/13) — For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the livi…
- [Psalms 78:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/14) — In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
- [Psalms 89:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/15) — Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
- [Psalms 97:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/11) — Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 104:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/2) — Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
- [Psalms 112:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/4) — Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
- [Psalms 119:105](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/105) — Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
- [Psalms 136:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/136/7) — To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- [Psalms 139:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/11) — If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
- [Psalms 148:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/148/3) — Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
- [Proverbs 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/18) — But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- [Proverbs 6:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/23) — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- [Proverbs 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/9) — The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- [Proverbs 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/15) — In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/13) — Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
- [Ecclesiastes 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/11/7) — Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
- [Ecclesiastes 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/2) — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- [Isaiah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/5) — O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- [Isaiah 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/20) — Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet…
- [Isaiah 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/30) — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and th…
- [Isaiah 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/2) — The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light sh…
- [Isaiah 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/17) — And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one da…
- [Isaiah 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/10) — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the mo…
- [Isaiah 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/18/4) — For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud…
- [Isaiah 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/26) — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, i…
- [Isaiah 42:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/6) — I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for…
- [Isaiah 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/16) — And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light befo…
- [Isaiah 45:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/7) — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- [Isaiah 49:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/6) — And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel:…
- [Isaiah 51:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/4) — Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a l…
- [Isaiah 58:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/8) — Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee;…
- [Isaiah 58:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/10) — And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as…
- [Isaiah 59:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/9) — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk i…
- [Isaiah 60:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/1) — Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
- [Isaiah 60:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/3) — And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
- [Isaiah 60:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/19) — The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an e…
- [Isaiah 60:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/20) — Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy m…
- [Jeremiah 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/23) — I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- [Jeremiah 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/16) — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for lig…
- [Jeremiah 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/10) — Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the…
- [Jeremiah 31:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/35) — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which d…
- [Lamentations 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/2) — He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- [Ezekiel 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/7) — And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon sh…
- [Ezekiel 32:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/8) — All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Hosea 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/5) — Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth fort…
- [Amos 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/18) — Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
- [Amos 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/20) — Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- [Amos 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/9) — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the…
- [Micah 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/1) — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of…
- [Micah 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/8) — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
- [Micah 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/9) — I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will b…
- [Habakkuk 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/4) — And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
- [Habakkuk 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/11) — The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
- [Zephaniah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/5) — The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the…
- [Zechariah 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/6) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
- [Zechariah 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/7) — But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be l…