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Eye

עַ֫יִןStrong’s H5869

ayin (a-yin)

Appears in 827 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “eyes of”, “eyes your” and “view your”. It appears in 827 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
Daniel 8:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Eye
  2. § spring, fountain
  3. Spring, fountain
How it's translated
  • in eyes of 139
  • eyes your 76
  • in view your 76
  • to eyes of 51
  • eyes my 50
  • eyes his 46
  • in view his 31
  • eye my 29

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 75
  • Psalms 64
  • Ezekiel 64
  • Deuteronomy 57
  • Proverbs 48
  • 2 Kings 45

37 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 827 verses, by book
Ezra 2
3:129:8
Song of Solomon 7
1:154:14:95:126:57:48:10
Hosea 2
2:1013:14
Joel 1
1:16
Amos 3
9:39:49:8
Jonah 1
2:4
Micah 2
4:117:10
Habakkuk 1
1:13
Zephaniah 1
3:20
Haggai 1
2:3
Malachi 2
1:52:17
Hebrew dictionary

עַ֫יִן ayin · eye

: eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

עַ֫יִן ayin · Fountain (Gate)

§ spring, fountain

עַ֫יִן ayin · spring

spring, fountain

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “eye” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

EYE, noun

pronounced as I. [Latin oculus, a diminutive. The old English plural was eyen, or eyne.]

  1. The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit.
  2. Sight; view; ocular knowledge; as, I have a man now in my eye In this sense, the plural is more generally used.“Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you” Galatians 3:1
  3. Look; countenance.
  4. Front; face.
All definitions and other forms of “eye”
  1. Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye
  2. Aspect; regard; respect; view.
  3. Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.
  4. View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.
  5. Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.
  6. Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.
  7. A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.
  8. A small catch for a hook; as we say, hooks and eyes. in nearly the same sense, the word is applied to certain fastenings in the cordage of ships.
  9. The bud of a plant; a shoot.
  10. A small shade of color. [Little used.]
  11. The power of perception.“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened” Ephesians 1:18
  12. Oversight; inspection.

EYE, noun

A brood; as an eye of pheasants.

    EYE, verb transitive

    To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention.

      EYE, verb intransitive

      To appear; to have an appearance.

        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.