maor · light, lamp

What it means

maor (מָאוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “light, lamp”.

What gives light: a lamp or a heavenly body, like the sun and the moon, which God made to give light and to mark time.

How to say it

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

1. The sun, moon and stars.
2. The glow of the sanctuary lamp.
3. Light that gladdens.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• light ×14
• lights ×3
• luminaries ×1
• luminary ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 1:14

  And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

• Genesis 1:15

  and let them be lights in the vault of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:16

  And Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.

• Exodus 25:6

  oil for the light, spices for the oil of anointing and for the fragrant incense;

• Exodus 27:20

  And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to make burn a lamp continually.

• Exodus 35:8

  and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense;

• Exodus 35:14

  and the lampstand for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

• Exodus 35:28

  and the spice and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

• Exodus 39:37

  the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

• Leviticus 24:2

  “Command the sons of Israel to bring you pure oil of olives, beaten, for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

• Numbers 4:9

  And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its vessels for oil with which they minister to it.

• Numbers 4:16

  And the oversight of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil, the oversight of the whole dwelling and of all that is in it, in the Holy Place and in its utensils.”

• Psalms 74:16

  Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminary and the sun.

• Psalms 90:8

  You have set our iniquities before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

• Proverbs 15:30

  The light of the eyes makes the heart glad; a good report fills the bones to the full.

• Ezekiel 32:8

  All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will put darkness on your land, declares Adonai YHWH.

And 3 more times.