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).
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
Occurrences
887 total
- Numbers 22:5עֵ֣ין · the face…he sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak. “They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
- Numbers 22:11עֵ֣ין · the face‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”
- Numbers 22:31עֵינֵ֣י · eyesThen the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
- Numbers 22:34בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ · in your sight“I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
- Numbers 23:27בְּעֵינֵ֣י“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”
- Numbers 24:1בְּעֵינֵ֤יAnd when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not seek omens as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
- Numbers 24:2עֵינָ֗יוWhen Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,
- Numbers 24:3הָעָֽיִן׃ · whose eyes…and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,
- Numbers 24:4עֵינָֽיִם׃ · with eyes…the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
- Numbers 24:15הָעָֽיִן׃ · whose eyesThen Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying, “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,
- Numbers 24:16עֵינָֽיִם׃ · with eyes…the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
- Numbers 25:6לְעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight; וּלְעֵינֵ֖י · [and]Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 27:14לְעֵינֵיהֶ֑ם · in their sight…for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
- Numbers 27:19לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ · in their sightHave him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.
- Numbers 32:5בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ · in your sight“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
- Numbers 32:13בְּעֵינֵ֥י · sightThe anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
- Numbers 33:3לְעֵינֵ֖י · in full viewOn the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- Numbers 33:9עֵינֹ֥ת · springsThey set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
- Numbers 33:55בְּעֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם · in your eyesBut if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
- Numbers 36:6בְּעֵינֵיהֶ֖םThis is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
- Deuteronomy 1:23בְּעֵינַ֖י · seemedThe plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
- Deuteronomy 1:30לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · you saw HimThe LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
- Deuteronomy 3:21עֵינֶ֣יךָ · Your own eyesAnd at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
- Deuteronomy 3:27עֵינֶ֛יךָ; בְעֵינֶ֑יךָ · with your own eyesGo to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 4:3עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ · Your eyesYour eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
- Deuteronomy 4:6לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sightObserve them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Deuteronomy 4:9עֵינֶ֗יךָ · your eyesOnly be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Deuteronomy 4:19עֵינֶ֜יךָWhen you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 4:25בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the sightAfter you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
- Deuteronomy 4:34לְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ · before your eyesOr has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 6:8עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 6:18בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sightDo what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 6:22לְעֵינֵֽינוּ׃ · Before our eyesBefore our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
- Deuteronomy 7:16עֵֽינְךָ֖ · lookYou must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
- Deuteronomy 7:19עֵינֶ֗יךָ · you…the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- Deuteronomy 8:7עֲיָנֹת֙ · and fountainsFor the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- Deuteronomy 9:17לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · before your eyesSo I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 9:18בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the sightThen I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 10:21עֵינֶֽיךָ׃ · your eyesHe is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
- Deuteronomy 11:7עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ · your own eyesFor it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
- Deuteronomy 11:12עֵינֵ֨י · the eyesIt is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
- Deuteronomy 11:18עֵינֵיכֶֽם׃Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 12:8בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ · in his own eyesYou are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
- Deuteronomy 12:25בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the eyesDo not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:28בְּעֵינֵ֖י · in the eyesBe careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 13:8עֵֽינְךָ֙…you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
- Deuteronomy 13:18בְּעֵינֵ֖י · in the eyes…because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 14:1עֵינֵיכֶ֖םYou are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,