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Strong's #2224 - זָרַח
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- Strong
- to rise, come forth, break out, arise, rise up, shine
- (Qal)
- to rise
- to come out, appear
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2135) hrz (זרהה ZRHh) AC: Rise CO: Dawn AB: ?: The rising of the sun in the eastern horizon. [from: hr- The perscribed path of the sun]
V) hrz (זרהה ZRHh) - Rise: KJV (18): (vf: Paal) arise, rise, shine, up - Strongs: H2224 (זָרַח)
Nm) hrz (זרהה ZRHh) - Dawn: The early morning rising of the sun. KJV (1): rising - Strongs: H2225 (זֶרַח)
hm) hrzm (מזרהה MZRHh) - East: The place of the rising sun. KJV (74): east, eastward, sunrising - Strongs: H4217 (מִזְרָח)
nm) hrza (אזרהה AZRHh) - Native: [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (18): born, country, land, homeborn, nation, bay - Strongs: H249 (אֶזְרָח)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect ׳ז Deuteronomy 33:2; Psalm 112:4; זָרָ֑ח Isaiah 60:1; וְזָרַח consecutive Isaiah 58:10; Ecclesiastes 1:5; 3 feminine singular זָרְחָה Exodus 22:2 3t.; וְזָרְָֽחָה consecutive Malachi 3:20; Imperfect יִזְרַח 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 60:2; יִזְרָ֑ח Job 9:7; וַיִּזְרַח Genesis 32:32; 3 feminine singular תִּזְרח Psalm 104:22; Infinitive construct זְרֹחַ Judges 9:33; Joel 4:8; Participle זוֺרֵחַ Ecclesiastes 1:5; —
1 rise:
a. (of sun) Judges 9:33; Nahum 3:7; 2 Samuel 23:4; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:7; Psalm 104:22; Ecclesiastes 1:5 (twice in verse); followed by על Exodus 22:2 (JE), 2 Kings 3:22; followed by לְ Genesis 32:32 (J).
b. figurative, followed by לְ, שֶׁמֶשׁ צְדָקָה Malachi 3:20; of ׳י, וְזָרַח מִשֵּׂעִיר לָמוֺ Deuteronomy 33:2; followed by על, Isaiah 60:2 ("" כבודו יראה); ׳כבוד י Isaiah 60:1; subject אוֺד, figurative ( = happiness, blessedness) Isaiah 58:10; Psalm 112:4 (followed by לְ).
2 come out, appear, of appearance of leprosy (הַצָּרַ֫עַת) 2 Chronicles 26:19.
זָרַח fut. יִזְרַח
(1) to rise, used of the sun, Genesis 32:32; Exodus 22:2; 2 Samuel 23:4; Psalms 104:22, etc.; also applied to light, Isaiah 58:10 to the glory of God, 60:1, Isaiah 60:2; Deuteronomy 33:2. (It properly means to scatter rays, comp. the kindred words זָרָה, זָרַר. This root is variously changed in the cognate languages; hence in Arabic and Ethiopic شرق ሠረቀ፡, in Aramean דְּנַח, ܕܢܚܰ.)
(2) It is figuratively applied
(a) to leprosy breaking out in the skin,
(b) in the derivatives also to a fœtus breaking forth from the womb (see זֶרַח and Genesis 38:30), and
(c) to a plant springing up, i.q. פָּרַח, see אֶזְרָח.
Derivatives, אֶזְרָח, מִזְרָח, pr.n. יִזְרַחְיָה, and the words immediately following.