אוֹר
ʼôwr · ore
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H215 (אוֹר);
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
Strength, the leader that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אוֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
121 occurrences · 121 OT · 0 NT · 62 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- light17 · 23%
- the light11 · 15%
- and the light5 · 7%
- for light5 · 7%
- in the light4 · 5%
- for a light4 · 5%
- to light3 · 4%
- is light2 · 3%
- with the light2 · 3%
- as the light2 · 3%
- then shall thy light2 · 3%
- their light2 · 3%
- lights2 · 3%
- and not light2 · 3%
- unto thee: and the light1 · 1%
- from light1 · 1%
- without light1 · 1%
- wherefore is light1 · 1%
- from the morning1 · 1%
- and he shall be as the light1 · 1%
- was, till it was light1 · 1%
- yea, the light1 · 1%
- when it is day1 · 1%
- had light1 · 1%
- and there was light1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.