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Strong's #5869: `ayin (pronounced ah'-yin)

probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape):--affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ayin

1) eye

1a) eye

1a1) of physical eye

1a2) as showing mental qualities

1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (figuratively)

2) spring, fountain

Part of Speech: noun feminine or masculine

Relation: probably a primitive word

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1612a, 1613



Usage:

This word is used 883 times:

Ecclesiastes 4:8: "of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I"
Ecclesiastes 5:11: "is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?"
Ecclesiastes 6:9: "Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also"
Ecclesiastes 8:16: "nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)"
Ecclesiastes 11:7: "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:"
Ecclesiastes 11:9: "in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all"
Song of Solomon 1:15: "behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes."
Song of Solomon 4:1: "behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair"
Song of Solomon 4:9: "my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck."
Song of Solomon 5:12: " His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set."
Song of Solomon 6:5: "Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair"
Song of Solomon 7:4: "Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate"
Song of Solomon 8:10: "like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor."
Isaiah 1:15: "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many"
Isaiah 1:16: "the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;"
Isaiah 2:11: "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD"
Isaiah 3:8: "are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory."
Isaiah 3:16: "and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go,"
Isaiah 5:15: "shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:"
Isaiah 5:21: "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
Isaiah 6:5: "of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD"
Isaiah 6:10: "and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear"
Isaiah 6:10: "their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,"
Isaiah 10:12: "of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks."
Isaiah 11:3: "and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:"
Isaiah 13:16: "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
Isaiah 13:18: "pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children."
Isaiah 17:7: "look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 29:10: "of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers"
Isaiah 29:18: "hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity,"
Isaiah 30:20: "thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:"
Isaiah 32:3: " And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken."
Isaiah 33:15: "his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing"
Isaiah 33:17: " Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off."
Isaiah 33:20: "upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,"
Isaiah 35:5: "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped."
Isaiah 37:17: "O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear"
Isaiah 37:23: "hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 38:3: "heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore."
Isaiah 38:14: "did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;"
Isaiah 40:26: "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out"
Isaiah 42:7: "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit"
Isaiah 43:4: "Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give"
Isaiah 43:8: "the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears."
Isaiah 44:18: "understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand."
Isaiah 49:5: "to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God"
Isaiah 49:18: "Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I"
Isaiah 51:6: "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath:"
Isaiah 52:8: "shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion."
Isaiah 52:8: "for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion."









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