Bible word study

Maowr (Strong’s H3974): Meaning in the Bible

Maowr (מָאוֹר) is the Hebrew word numbered H3974 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e. (abstractly) light (as an element); figuratively, brightness, i.e.cheerfulness; specifically, a chandelier. In the King James Bible it is translated bright, light..

• Original wordמָאוֹר
• Transliterationmâʼôwr
• Pronunciationmaw-ore'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3974
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or מָאֹר; also (in plural) feminine מְאוֹרָה; or מְאֹרָה; from H215;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Maowr appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Maowr (H3974) stands behind 19 English renderings in 16 verses across 7 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (7), Genesis (5), Numbers (2).

How the King James Bible renders Maowr, by count

• light15 of 19 (79 percent)
• lights3 of 19 (16 percent)
• bright1 of 19 (5 percent)

Three places to read Maowr

• Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
• Exodus 35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
• Numbers 4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Maowr in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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