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עַ֫יִן

a.yineyeHow to read Hebrew
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. Jeremiah 34:3עֵינֵ֨י · to 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.
  2. Jeremiah 34:15בְּעֵינַ֔י · Me
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  3. Jeremiah 39:6לְעֵינָ֑יו · before his eyes
    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
  4. Jeremiah 39:7עֵינֵ֥י · eyes
    Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
  5. Jeremiah 39:12וְעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · look after
    “Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
  6. Jeremiah 40:4בְּעֵינֶ֜יךָ; עֵינִי֙; בְּעֵינֶ֛יךָ; בְּעֵינֶ֛יךָ · Wherever it seems
    But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
  7. Jeremiah 40:5בְּעֵינֶ֛יךָ
    But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
  8. Jeremiah 42:2עֵינֶ֖יךָ · with your own eyes
    Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
  9. Jeremiah 43:9לְעֵינֵ֖י · In the sight
    “In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.
  10. Jeremiah 51:24לְעֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם · Before your very eyes
    Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
  11. Jeremiah 52:2בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
  12. Jeremiah 52:10לְעֵינָ֑יו · before his eyes
    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
  13. Jeremiah 52:11עֵינֵ֥י · eyes
    Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
  14. Lamentations 1:16עֵינִ֤י׀ · my eyes; עֵינִי֙
    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
  15. Lamentations 2:4עָ֑יִן · to the eye
    He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
  16. Lamentations 2:11עֵינַי֙ · My eyes
    My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  17. Lamentations 2:18עֵינֵֽךְ׃ס · and your eyes
    The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
  18. Lamentations 3:48עֵינִ֔י · from my eyes
    Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  19. Lamentations 3:49עֵינִ֧י · My eyes
    My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
  20. Lamentations 3:51עֵינִי֙ · My eyes
    My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
  21. Lamentations 4:17עֵינֵ֔ינוּ · our eyes
    All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
  22. Lamentations 5:17עֵינֵֽינוּ׃ · our eyes
    Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
  23. Ezekiel 1:4כְּעֵ֥ין · was a gleam
    I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,
  24. Ezekiel 1:7כְּעֵ֖ין · like
    Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.
  25. Ezekiel 1:16כְּעֵ֣ין · the gleam
    The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
  26. Ezekiel 1:18עֵינַ֛יִם · eyes
    Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
  27. Ezekiel 1:22כְּעֵ֖ין · gleaming
    Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
  28. Ezekiel 1:27כְּעֵ֣ין · a gleam
    From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.
  29. Ezekiel 4:12לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ס · in the sight [of the people]
    And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
  30. Ezekiel 5:8לְעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
  31. Ezekiel 5:11עֵינִ֔י · I will not look upon you
    Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
  32. Ezekiel 5:14לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
  33. Ezekiel 6:9עֵֽינֵיהֶ֔ם · their eyes
    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  34. Ezekiel 7:4עֵינִ֛י
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
  35. Ezekiel 7:9עֵינִ֖י
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
  36. Ezekiel 8:2כְּעֵ֥ין · as the gleam
    Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
  37. Ezekiel 8:5עֵינֶ֖יךָ · your eyes; עֵינַי֙ · my eyes
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
  38. Ezekiel 8:18עֵינִ֖י · look on them
    Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
  39. Ezekiel 9:5עֵינֵיכֶם · show pity
    And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
  40. Ezekiel 9:10עֵינִ֖י · look on them
    But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
  41. Ezekiel 10:2לְעֵינָֽי׃ · And as I watched
    And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
  42. Ezekiel 10:9כְּעֵ֖ין · gleamed
    Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
  43. Ezekiel 10:12עֵינַ֙יִם֙ · eyes
    Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
  44. Ezekiel 10:19לְעֵינַי֙ · As I watched
    As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
  45. Ezekiel 12:2עֵינַיִם֩ · They have eyes
    “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.