אוֹרָה
ora · herbs; light
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H219 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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ora (אוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “herbs; light”.
Herbs, plants of the field gathered to eat (2 Kings 4:39). The same word means in other places "light, brightness."
How to say it
o·ra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Wild greens for eating.
- Brightness that gladdens; a picture of joy and salvation.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- light ×2
- herbs ×1
- lights ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 4:39
One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.
- Esther 8:16
For the Jews there was light and gladness, and joy and honor.
- Psalms 139:12
even darkness is not dark to you, and the night shines like the day; as the darkness, so the light.
- Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; my corpse, they will rise. Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will cause to fall the shades.