Genesis 1:3
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
אוֹר
ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
אוֹר
ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
אוֹר ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Study H216 →אוֹר ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Study H216 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
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