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brightness

Meaning of “brightness”

1. Shining light or radiance. 2. Splendour or glory likened to radiance.

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22 occurrences22 verses11 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 2 Samuel 22:13

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Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 31:26 · retained source text

If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:

1611 marginal noteHeb. the light.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bright.

Isaiah 59:9
¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 59:9 · retained source text

¶ Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doth iustice ouertake vs: we waite for light, but behold obscuritie, for brightnesse, but we walke in darknesse.

Isaiah 60:3
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 60:3 · retained source text

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightnesse of thy rising.

1611 marginal noteReu.21.24.

Isaiah 60:19
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.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 60:19 · retained source text

The Sunne shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightnesse shall the moone giue light vnto thee: but the LORD shall be vnto thee an euerlasting light, & thy God thy glory.

1611 marginal noteReue.21.22. & 22.5.

Isaiah 62:1
FOR Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
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¶ For Zions sake, wil I not hold my peace, and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest, vntill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse, and the saluation thereof as a lampe that burneth;

Ezekiel 1:4
¶ And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 1:4 · retained source text

¶ And I looked, and behold, a whirlewinde came out of the North, a great cloude, and a fire infoulding it selfe, and a brightnesse was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

1611 marginal noteHeb catching it selfe.

Ezekiel 1:27
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 1:27 · retained source text

And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it: from the appearance of his loynes euen vpward, and from the appearance of his loynes euen downeward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, & it had brightnesse round about.

Ezekiel 1:28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 1:28 · retained source text

As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloude in the day of raine, so was the appearance of the brightnesse round about. This was the appearance of the likenesse of the glory of the LORD: and when I saw it, I fell vpon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

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