זָרַח

zarach · rise, shine

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2224 · appears 18 times in the Bible

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What it means

zarach (זָרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rise, shine”.

Rise (of the sun); shine, dawn.

How to say it

za·rach

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. To rise, shine, like the sun at dawn.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • rises ×7
  • will rise ×3
  • has risen ×2
  • rose ×2
  • broke out ×1
  • dawned ×1
  • rise ×1
  • shone ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 32:31

    The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

  • Exodus 22:3

    if the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for him. He shall surely repay; if he has nothing, he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Deuteronomy 33:2

    And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.

  • Judges 9:33

    And in the morning, as the sun rises, you shall rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to him as your hand finds.

  • 2 Samuel 23:4

    is like the light of morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, springs vegetation from the earth.’

  • 2 Kings 3:22

    They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and Moab saw the water across from them red as blood.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:19

    Uzziah was enraged, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of YHWH, beside the altar of incense.

  • Job 9:7

    who speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars;

  • Psalms 104:22

    The sun rises, they gather together, and in their dens they lie down.

  • Psalms 112:4

    Light rises in the darkness for the upright; gracious and merciful and righteous.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:5

    And the sun rises, and the sun goes down, and it pants toward its place; there it rises.

  • Isaiah 58:10

    and if you offer your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom will be like noon.

  • Isaiah 60:1

    Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of YHWH has risen upon you.

  • Isaiah 60:2

    For look, darkness will cover the earth, and thick cloud the peoples; but upon you YHWH will rise, and his glory will be seen upon you.

  • Jonah 4:8

    And it happened, when the sun rose, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on the head of Jonah, and he grew faint; and he asked that his soul die, and said, “Better is my death than my life.”

  • Nahum 3:17

    Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?

  • Malachi 4:2

    But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings; and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

And 1 more times.