Strong's #380: 'iyshown (pronounced ee-shone')

diminutive from 376; the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night):--apple (of the eye), black, obscure.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ı̂yshôn

1) pupil of the eye

2) middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: diminutive from H376

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Deuteronomy 32:10: "he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
Psalms 17:8: "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,"
Proverbs 7:2: "my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye."
Proverbs 7:9: "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:"
Proverbs 20:20: "or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."