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Hartley College, Point Pedro, Sri Lanka.Fiat Lux Academe in Cavite, Philippines.Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City.Emmanuel College, University of Queensland.Milwaukee Downer College (as "Sit lux").Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, Nigeria.Albion College (rendered as "Lux fiat").The phrase "Let there be light" used metaphorically over the door of Central Library, a Carnegie library in Edinburghįiat lux or Sit lux appears in the motto and on the seals of a number of educational institutions, including: The Douay–Rheims Bible translates the phrase, from the Vulgate, as "Be light made. Literally, fiat lux would be translated as "let light be made" ( fiat is the third person singular present passive subjunctive form of the verb facio, meaning "to do" or "to make"). In context, the translation is " dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux" ("And said God let there be light, and there was light"). In the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Hebrew phrase יְהִי אוֹר‎ is translated in Latin as fiat lux. The original Latinization of the Greek translation used in the Vetus Latina was lux sit ("light – let it exist" or "let light exist"), which has been used occasionally, although there is debate as to its accuracy. Γενηθήτω is the imperative form of γίγνομαι, "to come into being." יְהִי‎ ( yəhî) is the third-person masculine singular jussive form of "to exist" and אוֹר‎ ( ’ôr) means "light." In biblical Hebrew, the phrase יְהִי אוֹר‎ ( yəhî ’ôr) is made of two words.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.ģAnd God said, Let there be light: and there was light.ĤAnd God saw the light, and it was good and God divided the light from the darkness. 1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.ĢAnd the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.