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. 1 Samuel 26:24בְּעֵינָ֑י · I valued; בְּעֵינֵ֣י · value
    As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”
  2. 1 Samuel 27:5בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in your eyes
    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
  3. 1 Samuel 29:1בַּעַ֖יִן · by the spring
    Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.
  4. 1 Samuel 29:6בְּ֠עֵינַי · in my sight; וּבְעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
  5. 1 Samuel 29:7בְּעֵינֵ֖י · to displease
    Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
  6. 1 Samuel 29:9בְּעֵינַ֖י · in my sight
    Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
  7. 2 Samuel 3:19בְּעֵינֵ֣י; וּבְעֵינֵ֖י
    Abner also spoke to the Benjamites. Then he went to Hebron to tell David all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.
  8. 2 Samuel 3:36בְּעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם · were pleased; בְּעֵינֵ֥י · pleased
    All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
  9. 2 Samuel 4:10בְּעֵינָ֔יו · and thought
    …when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
  10. 2 Samuel 6:20לְעֵינֵ֨י · in the sight
    When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
  11. 2 Samuel 6:22בְּעֵינָ֑י · myself
    …and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
  12. 2 Samuel 7:19בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in Your eyes
    And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
  13. 2 Samuel 10:3בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ · do you really believe
    …the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
  14. 2 Samuel 10:12בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ · in His sight
    Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”
  15. 2 Samuel 11:25בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · you
    Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
  16. 2 Samuel 11:27בְּעֵינֵ֥י · in the sight
    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  17. 2 Samuel 12:9בְּעֵינוֹ · in His sight
    Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
  18. 2 Samuel 12:11לְעֵינֶ֔יךָ · Before your very eyes; לְעֵינֵ֖י
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  19. 2 Samuel 13:2בְּעֵינֵ֣י · and it seemed
    Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
  20. 2 Samuel 13:5לְעֵינַי֙ · in my sight
    Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
  21. 2 Samuel 13:6לְעֵינַי֙ · in my sight
    So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
  22. 2 Samuel 13:8לְעֵינָ֔יו · in his sight
    So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
  23. 2 Samuel 13:34עֵינוֹ
    Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
  24. 2 Samuel 14:22בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ · in your eyes
    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
  25. 2 Samuel 15:25בְּעֵינֵ֣י · in the eyes
    Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
  26. 2 Samuel 15:26בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ס · to Him
    But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
  27. 2 Samuel 16:4בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ · in your eyes
    So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
  28. 2 Samuel 16:22לְעֵינֵ֖י · in the sight
    So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  29. 2 Samuel 17:4בְּעֵינֵ֣י · seemed; וּבְעֵינֵ֖י
    This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
  30. 2 Samuel 18:4בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם · to you
    “I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
  31. 2 Samuel 18:24עֵינָיו֙
    Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
  32. 2 Samuel 19:6בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃
    You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
  33. 2 Samuel 19:18בְּעֵינוֹ · in his sight
    …and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
  34. 2 Samuel 19:27בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ · in your eyes
    …and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
  35. 2 Samuel 19:37בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ס · in your sight
    Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
  36. 2 Samuel 19:38בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ · in your sight
    The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
  37. 2 Samuel 20:6עֵינֵֽנוּ׃ · us
    And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
  38. 2 Samuel 22:25עֵינָֽיו׃ · His sight
    So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
  39. 2 Samuel 22:28וְעֵינֶ֖יךָ · but Your eyes
    You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
  40. 2 Samuel 24:3וְעֵינֵ֥י · and may the eyes
    But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
  41. 2 Samuel 24:22בְּעֵינוֹ · to him
    Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  42. 1 Kings 1:20עֵינֵ֥י · the eyes
    And as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
  43. 1 Kings 1:48וְעֵינַ֥י · and my eyes
    …saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
  44. 1 Kings 3:10בְּעֵינֵ֣י
    Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.