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lights

Meaning of “lights”

Sources of illumination or visible brightness.

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10 occurrences10 verses8 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 1:14

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Every verse containing “lights”

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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:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 1:14 · retained source text

¶ And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

1611 marginal noteHebr. betweene the day and betweene the night.

1611 marginal noteDeu. 4.19 psal. 136.7.

Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 1:15 · retained source text

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 1:16 · retained source text

And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the starres also.

1611 marginal noteHebr. for the rule of the day, &c.

1 Kings 6:4
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Kings 6:4 · retained source text

And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.

1611 marginal noteOr, windowes broad within and narrow without: or, skewed and closed.

Psalms 136:7
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 136:7 · retained source text

To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for euer.

1611 marginal noteGen.1.14.

Ezekiel 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 32:8 · retained source text

All the bright lights of heauen will I make darke ouer thee, and set darkenesse vpon thy land, saith the LORD God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. lights of the light in heauen.

1611 marginal noteHeb. them darke.

Luke 12:35
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Luke 12:35 · retained source text

Let your loines be girded about, and your lights burning,

1611 marginal note1.Pet. 1.13.

Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Philippians 2:15 · retained source text

That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world:

1611 marginal noteOr, syncere.

1611 marginal noteOr, shine ye

James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 1:17 · retained source text

Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, & commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning.

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