Strong’s
H219aNoun, feminine3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Esther 8:16אוֹרָה
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
- Psalm 139:12כָּאוֹרָה
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
- Isaiah 26:19אוֹרֹת
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
אוֹרָה n.f. light
1. light
2. light of joy & happiness
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.