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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:

1 Samuel 27:5: "I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town"
1 Samuel 29:1: "to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel."
1 Samuel 29:6: "and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found"
1 Samuel 29:6: "of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favor"
1 Samuel 29:7: "return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords"
1 Samuel 29:9: "that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes"
2 Samuel 3:19: "all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole"
2 Samuel 3:19: "that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin."
2 Samuel 3:36: "And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king"
2 Samuel 3:36: "of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all"
2 Samuel 4:10: "Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew"
2 Samuel 6:20: "who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows"
2 Samuel 6:22: "than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which"
2 Samuel 7:19: "And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also"
2 Samuel 10:3: "unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father,"
2 Samuel 10:12: "of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good."
2 Samuel 11:25: "this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth"
2 Samuel 11:27: "that David had done displeased the LORD."
2 Samuel 12:9: "of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite"
2 Samuel 12:11: "thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie"
2 Samuel 12:11: "them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun."
2 Samuel 13:2: "she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing"
2 Samuel 13:5: "and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat"
2 Samuel 13:6: "and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand."
2 Samuel 13:8: "flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes."
2 Samuel 13:34: "that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much"
2 Samuel 14:22: "that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king"
2 Samuel 15:25: "if I shall find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:"
2 Samuel 15:26: "in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good"
2 Samuel 16:4: "I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king."
2 Samuel 16:22: "in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel."
2 Samuel 17:4: "And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel."
2 Samuel 18:4: "said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood"
2 Samuel 18:24: "the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running"
2 Samuel 19:6: "we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well."
2 Samuel 19:18: "the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera"
2 Samuel 19:27: "of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes."
2 Samuel 19:37: "and do to him what shall seem good"
2 Samuel 19:38: "me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require"
2 Samuel 20:6: "he get him fenced cities, and escape"
2 Samuel 22:25: "me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight."
2 Samuel 22:28: "And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down."
2 Samuel 24:3: "the people, how many soever they be a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king"
2 Samuel 24:22: "take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments"
1 Kings 1:20: "And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell"
1 Kings 1:48: "on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing"
1 Kings 3:10: "And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked"
1 Kings 8:29: " That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,"
1 Kings 8:52: " That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication"
1 Kings 9:3: "my name there forever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there"









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