זֹהַר
zôhar · H2096 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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brightness, brilliance, splendor, glow
Process by which an object emits or reflects intense light; regarded as awesome
ExamplesEzekiel 8:2 Then I looked, and behold, something like the appearance of a man; from His waist and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His waist and upward like the appearance of a glow, like gleaming metal.
Daniel 12:3 “And those who have insight will shine like the glow of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָקִיעַfirmament 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- נְהָרָה nᵉhârâh · H5105 · (day)light
- Both words denote luminous phenomena (brightness versus light) and overlap in the sense of shining.
- בָּרָק bârâq · H1300 · lightning, flashing, glittering
- Both words denote brightness or shining as their core sense, זֹהַר (zôhar, H2096) in the sense of lightning or glittering and בָּרָק (bârâq, H1300) in the sense of brightness.
- אוֹר ʼôwr · H216 · light, smile, favor
- Both denote luminous phenomena; זֹהַר (zôhar, H2096) is a rare word for brightness while אוֹר (ʼôwr, H216) is the common word for light, so זֹהַר (zôhar, H2096) functions as a rarer near-synonym for the more common אוֹר (ʼôwr, H216).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Shine002001001053
- זֹהַר denotes brightness, the gleaming radiance of the figure Ezekiel sees and the shining destiny of those who lead many to righteousness in Daniel.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2096. zohar זֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] shining, brightness (Arabic , Late Hebrew זְהוֺר,…
זֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] shining, brightness (Arabic , Late Hebrew זְהוֺר, compare Aramaic זִיהֲרָא); — absolute Eze 8:2 ז ׳כְּמַרְאֵה like an appearance of shining (explained, vb, as resembling amber, חַשְׁמַל compare Eze 1:27); also construct Dan 12:3 see foregoing.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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