Hebrew noun (feminine) · H219
אוֹרָה
oraho-raw'
light; herb
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H219
luminousness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity; also a plant (as being bright)
The King James renders it: herb, light.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
orah is rendered "light; herb". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "light".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 4:39One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
2 Kings 4:39אֹרֹת֒
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: light, and herb.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| lightStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where2 Kings 4:39One of them went out to the field to gather herbs… |
| herbStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- as the light1
- herbs1
- light1
- lights1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אוֹרָ֖ה1
- אוֹרֹת֙1
- אֹרֹת֒1
- כָּאוֹרָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
2 Kings
one use
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- אֹרֹת֒ʾorotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: herbs
Esther
one use
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
- אוֹרָ֖הʾorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: light
Psalms
one use
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
- כָּאוֹרָֽה׃kaorahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: as the light
Isaiah
one use
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.
- אוֹרֹת֙ʾorotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: lights
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.