Eye
עַ֫יִןStrong’s H5870ayin (a-yin)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayin is the Aramaic word usually translated “eye of”, “eye my” and “eyes”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:”
Meaning
- Eye
How it's translated
- and eye of 1
- eye my 1
- eyes 1
- like eyes of 1
- and eyes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
- Daniel 7:20In contextAnd of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
- Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Aramaic dictionary
עַ֫יִן ayin · eye
eye Aramaic of a.yin (עַ֫יִן ": eye" H5869A)
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.]
- The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit.
- 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
- Look; countenance.
- Front; face.
All definitions and other forms of “eye”
- Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye
- Aspect; regard; respect; view.
- Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.
- View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.
- Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.
- Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.
- A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.
- 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.
- The bud of a plant; a shoot.
- A small shade of color. [Little used.]
- The power of perception.“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened” Ephesians 1:18
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.