Modern Summary of Strong’s Concordance (1890)
The word "אוֹר" (ôwr) primarily means light or illumination, which can refer to physical light sources or brightness in general. It is used in various contexts, including natural light like the sun or morning, as well as metaphorical senses like happiness or clarity. The term can also describe phenomena like lightning or anything that emits light.
light; daylight, illumination
The Hebrew word ôwr means "light; daylight, illumination," encompassing related ideas including bright, clear, day, light.
Its Greek parallel is φῶς (phōs), revealing shared conceptual ground across the biblical languages.
The semantic range of ôwr — spanning meanings like bright, clear, day — suggests a word whose full significance cannot be captured by a single English term.
Lexical data derived from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. See full disclaimer
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