en-lit'-'-n:
(1) 'or, "illumination" in every sense, used in the ordinary sense of giving natural light (Ps 97:4the King James Version; see alsoEzr 9:8) or as a sign of health and vigor (1Sa 14:27,29). "His eyes were enlightened," literally, "became bright." He had become weary and faint with the day's exertions and anxieties, and now recovers (seeJob 33:30and comparePs 13:3). Thus in sickness and grief, the eyes are dull and heavy; dying eyes are glazed; but health and joy render them bright and sparkling, as with a light from within.
(2) InPs 18:28the King James Version, The word naghah, figuratively describes the believer's deliverance from the gloom of adversity and the restoration of joy in the knowledge of God.
(3) Most frequently the terms so translated mean the giving of spiritual light to the soul (Ps 19:8;Eph 1:18, photizo;Heb 6:4;10:32). This spiritual enlightening the Spirit of God brings about through the Divine word (Ps 119:130;2Ti 3:15;2Pe 1:19). Sin mars the intellectual discernment; "but he that is spiritual discerneth all things" (1Co 2:15King James Version, margin).
M. O. Evans