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# אוֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H219

**light** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

light [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/219/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹרָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/219/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. light (late, Mish. id., cf. Aramaic אוּרְתָּא evening-light, moon-light, star-light, etc.) light (opp. חֲשֵׁיכָה) ψ 139:12. light of joy & happiness Es 8:16; pl. intens. אוֹרוֹת light of life Is 26:19 (light that quickens dead bodies as dew the plants Ew Hi De Che Di RVm; vid. BrMP 303 cf. אוֹר חַיִּים; but Ki Ges MV Bö RV transl. herbs).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: light (2); of lights (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.16/#tree)

לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים הָֽיְתָ֥ה אוֹרָ֖ה וְשִׂמְחָ֑ה וְשָׂשֹׂ֖ן וִיקָֽר׃

*Word for word:* to the Jews it.belonged light and gladness and joy and honor

*JPS 1917:* The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honour.

[Psalms 139:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.12/#tree)

גַּם־חֹשֶׁךְ֮ לֹֽא־יַחְשִׁ֪יךְ מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָ וְ֭לַיְלָה כַּיּ֣וֹם יָאִ֑יר כַּ֝חֲשֵׁיכָ֗ה כָּאוֹרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* also darkness not it.is.\[too\].dark for you and night like the day it.shines as the darkness as the light

*JPS 1917:* Even the darkness is not too dark for Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness is even as the light.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/219.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/219/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).