Strong's #6079: `aph`aph (pronounced af-af')
from 5774; an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray:--dawning, eye-lid.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛aph‛aph
1) eyelid
1a) eyelid
1b) of dawn, rays of sun (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5774
Usage:
This word is used 10 times:
Job 3:9: "but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:"
Job 16:16: "with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"
Job 41:18: "a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning."
Psalms 11:4: "is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men."
Psalms 132:4: "sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,"
Proverbs 4:25: "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before"
Proverbs 6:4: "sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids."
Proverbs 6:25: "in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
Proverbs 30:13: "O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up."
Jeremiah 9:18: "us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters."