Pupil
אִישׁוֹןStrong’s H0380ishon (i-shon)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ishon is the Hebrew word usually translated “like pupil of”, “middle of” and “time of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.”
Meaning
- Pupil of the eye
- Middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness)
How it's translated
- like pupil of 3
- in middle of 1
- in a time of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Proverbs 7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Hebrew dictionary
אִישׁוֹן ishon · pupil
1) pupil of the eye 2) middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pupil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'PIL, noun
[Latin pupilla, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]
All definitions and other forms of “pupil”
PU'PIL, noun
[Latin pupillus, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]
- A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
- A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.
- In the civil law, a boy or girl under the age of puberty, that is, under 14 if a male, and under 12 if a female.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.