Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5869: עַיִן (ʻayin) Definition

Strong's number
H5869
Lemma
עַיִן
Transliteration
ʻayin
Pronunciation
ah'-yin
Strong's definition
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves). probably a primitive word;

830 instances of the word עַיִן ʻayin (H5869)


  • Genesis 24:42 - And I came this day unto the well and said O LORD God of my master Abraham if now thou do prosper my way which I go

  • Genesis 24:43 - Behold I stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and I say to drink I pray thee a little of water of thy pitcher

  • Genesis 24:45 - And before I had done speaking in mine heart behold Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down unto the well and drew water and I said unto her Let me drink

  • Genesis 24:63 - went out And Isaac to meditate in the field at the eventide and he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold the camels were coming

  • Genesis 24:64 - lifted up And Rebekah her eyes and when she saw Isaac she lighted off the camel

  • Genesis 27:1 - And it came to pass was old that when Isaac were dim and his eyes so that he could not see he called Esau son his eldest and he said son and he said

  • Genesis 27:12 - peradventure will feel My father me and I shall seem to him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing

  • Genesis 28:8 - seeing And Esau not that the daughters of Canaan pleased Isaac his father

  • Genesis 29:17 - eyed Leah was tender but Rachel and well and well favoured

  • Genesis 29:20 - served And Jacob for Rachel seven years and they seemed days unto him but a few for the love he had

  • Genesis 30:27 - said And Laban unto him I pray thee if I have found favour in thine eyes tarry for I have learned by experience hath blessed that the LORD me for thy sake

  • Genesis 30:41 - did conceive cattle And it came to pass whensoever the stronger laid that Jacob among the rods before the eyes cattle in the gutters did conceive among the rods

  • Genesis 31:10 - And it came to pass at the time conceived that the cattle that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the rams which leaped that the cattle were ringstraked speckled and grisled

  • Genesis 31:12 - And he said Lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked speckled and grisled and see all that Laban doeth

  • Genesis 31:35 - And she said to her father Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me And he searched but found not the images

  • Genesis 31:40 - Thus I was in the day consumed the drought me and the frost by night departed and my sleep from mine eyes

  • Genesis 32:5 - And I have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and womenservants and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find grace in thy sight

  • Genesis 33:1 - lifted up And Jacob his eyes and looked and behold Esau came and with him four hundred men And he divided the children unto Leah and unto Rachel and unto the two handmaids

  • Genesis 33:5 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women The children and said Who are those and said The children hath graciously given which God thy servant

  • Genesis 33:8 - And he said What meanest thou by all this drove which I met And he said These are to find grace in the sight of my lord