Keraia
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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. Judges 10:6בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
  2. Judges 10:15בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · as You see
    “We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
  3. Judges 13:1בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
  4. Judges 14:3בְעֵינָֽי׃ · to my eyes
    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
  5. Judges 14:7בְּעֵינֵ֥י · to his eyes
    Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
  6. Judges 16:21עֵינָ֑יו · his eyes
    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
  7. Judges 16:28עֵינַ֖י · eyes
    Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
  8. Judges 17:6בְּעֵינָ֖יו · in his own eyes
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  9. Judges 19:17עֵינָ֗יו
    When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
  10. Judges 19:24בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֑ם
    Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
  11. Judges 21:25בְּעֵינָ֖יו · in his own eyes
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  12. Ruth 2:2בְּעֵינָ֑יו · sight
    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
  13. Ruth 2:9עֵינַ֜יִךְ · [Let] your eyes [be on]
    Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
  14. Ruth 2:10בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in your eyes
    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
  15. Ruth 2:13בְּעֵינֶ֤יךָ · in your eyes
    “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
  16. 1 Samuel 1:18בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · with you
    “May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
  17. 1 Samuel 1:23בְּעֵינַ֗יִךְ · what you think
    “Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
  18. 1 Samuel 2:33עֵינֶ֖יךָ · {I will cause} your eyes
    And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
  19. 1 Samuel 3:2וְעֵינוֹ · whose eyesight
    And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
  20. 1 Samuel 3:18בְּעֵינָ֖ו · in His eyes
    So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
  21. 1 Samuel 4:15וְעֵינָ֣יו · and his gaze
    Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.
  22. 1 Samuel 6:13עֵינֵיהֶ֗ם
    Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.
  23. 1 Samuel 8:6בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
  24. 1 Samuel 11:2עֵ֣ין · eye
    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
  25. 1 Samuel 11:10בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ס · to you
    Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do with us whatever seems good to you.”
  26. 1 Samuel 12:3עֵינַ֖י · my eyes
    Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
  27. 1 Samuel 12:16לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · before your eyes
    Now, therefore, present yourselves and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes.
  28. 1 Samuel 12:17בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight
    Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
  29. 1 Samuel 14:27עֵינָֽיו׃ · and his eyes
    Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.
  30. 1 Samuel 14:29עֵינַ֔י · my eyes
    “My father has brought trouble to the land,” Jonathan replied. “Just look at how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
  31. 1 Samuel 14:36בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ · to you
    And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”
  32. 1 Samuel 14:40בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ · to you
    Then Saul said to all Israel, “You stand on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will stand on the other side.” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied.
  33. 1 Samuel 15:17בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ · in your own eyes
    And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
  34. 1 Samuel 15:19בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”
  35. 1 Samuel 16:7לַעֵינַ֔יִם · the outward appearance
    But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
  36. 1 Samuel 16:12עֵינַ֖יִם · eyes
    So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
  37. 1 Samuel 16:22בְּעֵינָֽי׃ · him
    Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
  38. 1 Samuel 18:5בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the sight; בְּעֵינֵ֖י
    So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.
  39. 1 Samuel 18:8בְּעֵינָיו֙
    And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
  40. 1 Samuel 18:20בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ · him
    Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
  41. 1 Samuel 18:23בְעֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ · in your sight
    But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
  42. 1 Samuel 18:26בְּעֵינֵ֣י
    When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
  43. 1 Samuel 20:3בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ · in your eyes
    But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
  44. 1 Samuel 20:29בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ · in your eyes
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  45. 1 Samuel 21:13בְּעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם · before them
    So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
  46. 1 Samuel 24:4בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ
    So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
  47. 1 Samuel 24:10עֵינֶ֗יךָ · with your own eyes
    Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
  48. 1 Samuel 25:8בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ
    Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
  49. 1 Samuel 26:21בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ · you considered
    Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”