מָאוֹרmâʼôwr

light, light-bearer, luminary, lamp (Genesis 1:16; Proverbs 15:30; Genesis 1:15; Genesis 1:14; Ezekiel 32:8)

Pronunciation: maw-ore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3974

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 19 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.
  • Genesis 1:15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.
  • Exodus 25:6 olive oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;
  • Exodus 27:20 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
  • Exodus 35:8 olive oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).