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. Exodus 19:11לְעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    …and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
  2. Exodus 21:8בְּעֵינֵ֧י · in the eyes
    If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.
  3. Exodus 21:24עַ֚יִן · eye; עַ֔יִן · eye
    …eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
  4. Exodus 21:26עֵ֥ין · the eye; עֵ֥ין · the eye; עֵינֽוֹ׃ס
    If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
  5. Exodus 24:17לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the eyes
    And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
  6. Exodus 33:12בְּעֵינָֽי׃ · in My sight
    Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
  7. Exodus 33:13בְּעֵינֶ֗יךָ · in Your sight; בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · in Your sight
    Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
  8. Exodus 33:16בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in Your sight
    For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
  9. Exodus 33:17בְּעֵינַ֔י · in My sight
    So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
  10. Exodus 34:9בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in Your sight
    “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
  11. Exodus 40:38לְעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
  12. Leviticus 4:13מֵעֵינֵ֖י · the notice
    Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
  13. Leviticus 10:19בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    But Aaron replied to Moses, “Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the sight of the LORD?”
  14. Leviticus 10:20בְּעֵינָֽיו׃פ
    And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.
  15. Leviticus 13:5בְּעֵינָ֔יו · he sees
    On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.
  16. Leviticus 13:12עֵינֵ֥י
    But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
  17. Leviticus 13:37בְּעֵינָיו֩ · in his sight
    If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
  18. Leviticus 13:55עֵינוֹ֙ · in appearance
    After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.
  19. Leviticus 14:9עֵינָ֔יו
    On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
  20. Leviticus 20:4עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙ · their eyes
    And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
  21. Leviticus 20:17לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
  22. Leviticus 21:20בְּעֵינ֑וֹ · who has an eye
    …or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
  23. Leviticus 24:20עַ֚יִן · eye; עַ֔יִן · eye
    …fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
  24. Leviticus 25:53לְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ · in your sight
    He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
  25. Leviticus 26:16עֵינַ֖יִם · your sight
    …then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
  26. Leviticus 26:45לְעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
  27. Numbers 5:13מֵעֵינֵ֣י · from
    …by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
  28. Numbers 10:31לְעֵינָֽיִם׃ · eyes
    “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
  29. Numbers 11:6עֵינֵֽינוּ׃ · to see
    But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
  30. Numbers 11:7וְעֵינ֖וֹ · and its appearance; כְּעֵ֥ין · was like that
    Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
  31. Numbers 11:10וּבְעֵינֵ֥י · was also displeased
    Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.
  32. Numbers 11:11בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · in Your sight
    So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
  33. Numbers 11:15בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · in Your eyes
    If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
  34. Numbers 13:33בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ · in our own sight; בְּעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃
    We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
  35. Numbers 14:14עַ֨יִן · face; בְּעַ֜יִן · to face
    And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
  36. Numbers 15:24מֵעֵינֵ֣י · without the knowledge
    …and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
  37. Numbers 15:39עֵֽינֵיכֶ֔ם · and your own eyes
    These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
  38. Numbers 16:14הַעֵינֵ֞י · the eyes
    Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
  39. Numbers 19:5לְעֵינָ֑יו · in his sight
    Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
  40. Numbers 20:8לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם · while they watch
    “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
  41. Numbers 20:12לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
  42. Numbers 20:27לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.