עַ֫יִן

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine887 occurrences37 books827 verses
This word comes from the name of Fountain Gate.

Definition

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

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עַ֫יִן:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

887 total
  1. Isaiah 49:18עֵינַ֙יִךְ֙ · your eyes
    Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
  2. Isaiah 51:6עֵֽינֵיכֶ֜ם · your eyes
    Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
  3. Isaiah 52:8עַ֤יִן · every eye; בְּעַ֙יִן֙
    Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
  4. Isaiah 52:10לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
  5. Isaiah 59:10עֵינַ֖יִם · eyes
    Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
  6. Isaiah 59:15בְּעֵינָ֖יו
    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
  7. Isaiah 60:4עֵינַ֙יִךְ֙ · your eyes
    Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
  8. Isaiah 64:4עַ֣יִן · eye
    From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
  9. Isaiah 65:12בְּעֵינַ֔י · in My sight
    I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  10. Isaiah 65:16מֵעֵינָֽי׃ · from My sight
    Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
  11. Isaiah 66:4בְּעֵינַ֔י · in My sight
    So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  12. Jeremiah 3:2עֵינַ֨יִךְ · your eyes
    “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  13. Jeremiah 4:30עֵינַ֔יִךְ · your eyes
    And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
  14. Jeremiah 5:3עֵינֶיךָ֮ · Your eyes [look]
    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  15. Jeremiah 5:21עֵינַ֤יִם · who have eyes
    “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  16. Jeremiah 7:11בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֑ם · your sight
    Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 7:30בְּעֵינַ֖י · in My sight
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  18. Jeremiah 9:1וְעֵינִ֖י · and my eyes
    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
  19. Jeremiah 9:18עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ · that our eyes
    Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
  20. Jeremiah 13:17עֵינִי֙ · My eyes
    But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
  21. Jeremiah 13:20עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ · your eyes
    Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?
  22. Jeremiah 14:6עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם · their eyes
    Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
  23. Jeremiah 14:17עֵינַ֥י · My eyes
    You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
  24. Jeremiah 16:9לְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם · before your very eyes
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
  25. Jeremiah 16:17עֵינַי֙ · My eyes; עֵינָֽי׃ · My eyes
    For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
  26. Jeremiah 18:4בְּעֵינֵ֥י · it seemed
    But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
  27. Jeremiah 18:10בְּעֵינַ֔י · in My sight
    …and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
  28. Jeremiah 19:10לְעֵינֵי֙ · in the presence
    Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
  29. Jeremiah 20:4וְעֵינֶ֣יךָ · before your very eyes
    For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
  30. Jeremiah 22:17עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · your eyes
    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
  31. Jeremiah 24:6עֵינִ֤י · My eyes
    I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
  32. Jeremiah 26:14בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · what you think
    As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.
  33. Jeremiah 27:5בְּעֵינָֽי׃
    By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
  34. Jeremiah 28:1לְעֵינֵ֧י · in the presence
    In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
  35. Jeremiah 28:5לְעֵינֵ֤י · in the presence; וּלְעֵינֵ֣י
    Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.
  36. Jeremiah 28:11לְעֵינֵ֨י · And in the presence
    And in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.
  37. Jeremiah 29:21לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · before your very eyes
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
  38. Jeremiah 31:16וְעֵינַ֖יִךְ · and your eyes
    This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.
  39. Jeremiah 32:4וְעֵינָ֖יו · eye; עֵינוֹ · to eye
    Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
  40. Jeremiah 32:12לְעֵינֵי֙ · in the sight; וּלְעֵינֵי֙; לְעֵינֵי֙
    …and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
  41. Jeremiah 32:13לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם · In their sight
    In their sight I instructed Baruch,
  42. Jeremiah 32:19עֵינֶ֣יךָ · eyes
    …the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  43. Jeremiah 32:30בְּעֵינַ֖י · in My sight
    For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  44. Jeremiah 34:3וְֽ֠עֵינֶיךָ · eye
    And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.