אוֹרָה
ʼôwrâh · H219 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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light
Light as a physical phenomenon, mainly seen in the daytime and the opposite of darkness, one of God's most important attributes, first created by God, enabling people and animals to see, and associated with life, goodness, happiness, prosperity, security, favor and wisdom
ExamplesEsther 8:16 For the Jews there was light, joy, jubilation, and honor.
Psalm 139:12 Even darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
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herbs
Exact meaning unsure: edible plants, sometimes identified as mallow (Malva rotundifolia)
Examples2 Kings 4:39 Then one went out into the field to gather mallow, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds; and he came and sliced them into the pot of stew, because they did not know what they were.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַטto gather 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טַלdew 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shine002001001053
- אוֹרָה names light itself, as the light, joy, and honor that came to the Jews in the book of Esther.
- Plants001002007001
- The same word also names an edible herb or green, as the wild herbs gathered into the pot of stew in 2 Kings.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H219. owrah I. אוֺרָה noun feminine light (late, Mishna id., compare Aramaic אוּרְתָּא…
I. אוֺרָה noun feminine light (late, Mishna id., compare Aramaic אוּרְתָּא evening-light, moon-light, star-light, etc.)
1 light (opposed to חֲשֵׁיכָה) Psa 139:12.
2 light of joy & happiness Est 8:16; plural intensive אוֺרוֺת light of life Isa 26:19 (light that quickens dead bodies as dew the plants Ew Hi De Che Di RVm; see BrMP 303 compare חַיִּים אוֺר; but Ki Ges MV Bö RV translate herbs).
II. [אוֺרָה] noun feminine herb (so Mishna, Ges compare נצץ, Arabic = lights & flowers, & Samaritan יאר = דֶּשֶׁא of Gen 1:11-12,) only plural אוֺרוֺת herbs 2Ki 4:39 (compare Isa 26:19 above below I. אוֺרָה).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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