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)


  • Ruth 2:2 - And she said And Ruth the Moabitess unto Naomi to the field and glean ears of corn after I shall find grace him in whose sight And she said my daughter

  • Ruth 2:9 - Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap and go thou after them have I not charged of that which the young men that they shall not touch thee and when thou art athirst and go unto the vessels and drink have drawn of that which the young men

  • Ruth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and said unto him Why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me seeing I am a stranger

  • Ruth 2:13 - Then she said Let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly of thine handmaidens though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens

  • Song of Solomon 1:15 - Behold thou art fair my love Behold thou art fair eyes thou hast doves

  • Song of Solomon 4:1 - Behold thou art fair my love Behold thou art fair eyes thou hast doves within thy locks thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount Gilead

  • Song of Solomon 4:9 - Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy neck

  • Song of Solomon 5:12 - His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters washed with milk and fitly set

  • Song of Solomon 6:5 - Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead

  • Song of Solomon 7:4 - Thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim thy nose is as a tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus

  • Song of Solomon 8:10 - I am a wall and my breasts like towers then was I in his eyes as one that found favour

  • Zechariah 1:18 - Then lifted I up mine eyes and saw and behold four horns

  • Zechariah 2:1 - I lifted up mine eyes again and looked and behold a man in his hand line with a measuring

  • Zechariah 2:8 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you for he that toucheth you for he that toucheth the apple of his eye

  • Zechariah 3:9 - For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua For behold the stone in one shall be seven eyes behold I will engrave the graving thereof saith the LORD of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land day in one

  • Zechariah 4:10 - For who hath despised the day of small things for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven they are the eyes of the LORD which run to and fro through the whole earth

  • Zechariah 5:1 - Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked roll and behold a flying

  • Zechariah 5:5 - what is this that goeth forth Then the angel that talked and said unto me Lift up now thine eyes and see what is this that goeth forth

  • Zechariah 5:6 - And I said And I said This is an ephah that goeth forth And I said moreover This is their resemblance through all the earth

  • Zechariah 5:9 - Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked two women and behold there came out and the wind like the wings for they had like the wings like the wings of a stork Then lifted I up the ephah between the earth and the heaven