Strong's Hebrew · H2224

זָרַח

zârach · zaw-rakh'

arise, rise (up), as soon as it is up.

Definition

properly, to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), i.e. to rise (as the sun); specifically, to appear (as a symptom of leprosy)

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 18 times in Scripture

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Genesis 32:31

The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

Exodus 22:3

But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.

2 Kings 3:22

When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water, and it looked as red as blood to the Moabites across the way.

Judges 9:33

And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”

Job 9:7

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

2 Chronicles 26:19

Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.

Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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