Eyelid
עַפְעַףStrong’s H6079aphaph (aph-aph)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aphaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “on eyelids of”, “eyelids my” and “like eyelids of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:”
Meaning
- Eyelidof dawn, rays of sun (fig.)
How it's translated
- on eyelids of 1
- eyelids my 1
- like eyelids of 1
- eyelids his 1
- to eyelids my 1
- and eyelids your 1
- to eyelids your 1
- with eyelids her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Job 3
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Job 41:18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- Psalms 11:4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- Psalms 132:4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
- Proverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Hebrew dictionary
עַפְעַף aphaph · eyelid
1) eyelid 1a) eyelid 1b) of dawn, rays of sun (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eyelid” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EY'ELID, noun
The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers the eyeball, or uncovers it, at pleasure.
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.