אוֹר

ʼôwr · Hebrew · Strong's H216 · 121 occurrences

The KJV renders 19 different Hebrew and Greek words as “light”

What it means

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

from H215 (אוֹר);

How the KJV renders it

bright, clear, light, morning, sun

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“light”

also renders phōstḗr (G5458), lampás (G2985), phōtismós (G5462), elaphrós (G1645), háptō (G681), phéngos (G5338), phōs (G5457), lýchnos (G3088), kaíō (G2545), anáptō (G381), ʼûwr (H217), ʼôwrâh (H219), mechĕzâh (H4237), nᵉhîyr (H5094), nᵉhârâh (H5105), nîyr (H5216), qal (H7031), shachar (H7837)

“bright”

also renders lamprós (G2986), phōteinós (G5460), bâhîyr (H925), bârâq (H1300), mâraṭ (H4803), ʻâshôwth (H6219), ʻesheth (H6247)

“clear”

also renders lamprós (G2986), katharós (G2513), bar (H1249), yâqâr (H3368), nâqâh (H5352), nâqîy (H5355), tsach (H6703)

“morning”

also renders prōïnós (G4407), prōḯa (G4405), orthrinós (G3720), prōḯ (G4404), mishchâr (H4891), nôgahh (H5053), shachar (H7837)

“sun”

also renders hḗlios (G2246), shemesh (H8122)

Where it appears

121 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Samuel 14:36 · HNcbsc

Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them.” They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”

1 Samuel 25:34 · HNcbsc

For indeed, as Yahweh the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

1 Samuel 25:36 · HNcbsc

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

2 Kings 7:9 · HNcbsc

Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

2 Samuel 17:22 · HNcbsc

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 23:4 · HC/R/Ncbsc

shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Amos 5:18 HNcbsaAmos 5:20 HNcbsaAmos 8:9 HNcbsaEcclesiastes 2:13 HTd/NcbsaEcclesiastes 11:7 HTd/NcbsaEcclesiastes 12:2 HC/Td/NcbsaExodus 10:23 HNcbsaEzekiel 32:7 HNcbsc/Sp3msEzekiel 32:8 HNcbsaGenesis 1:3 HNcbsaGenesis 1:4 HTd/NcbsaGenesis 1:5 HRd/NcbsaGenesis 1:18 HTd/NcbsaHabakkuk 3:4 HRd/NcbsaHabakkuk 3:11 HR/NcbscHosea 6:5 HNcbsaIsaiah 2:5 HR/NcbscIsaiah 5:20 HC/NcbsaIsaiah 5:30 HC/NcbsaIsaiah 9:2 HNcbsaIsaiah 10:17 HNcbscIsaiah 13:10 HNcbsc/Sp3mpIsaiah 18:4 HNcbsaIsaiah 30:26 HC/NcbscIsaiah 42:6 HR/NcbscIsaiah 42:16 HRd/NcbsaIsaiah 45:7 HNcbsaIsaiah 49:6 HR/NcbscIsaiah 51:4 HR/NcbscIsaiah 58:8 HNcbsc/Sp2msIsaiah 58:10 HNcbsc/Sp2msIsaiah 59:9 HRd/NcbsaIsaiah 60:1 HNcbsc/Sp2fsIsaiah 60:3 HR/Ncbsc/Sp2fsIsaiah 60:19 HR/NcbsaIsaiah 60:20 HR/NcbscJudges 16:2 HNcbscJudges 19:26 HTd/NcbsaJeremiah 4:23 HNcbsc/Sp3mpJeremiah 13:16 HR/NcbsaJeremiah 25:10 HC/NcbscJeremiah 31:35 HR/NcbsaJob 3:9 HR/NcbsaJob 3:16 HNcbsaJob 3:20 HNcbsaJob 12:22 HRd/NcbsaJob 12:25 HNcbsaJob 17:12 HNcbsaJob 18:5 HNcbscJob 18:6 HNcbsaJob 18:18 HR/NcbsaJob 22:28 HNcbsaJob 24:13 HNcbsaJob 24:14 HRd/Ncbsa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.