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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Eye

(The practice of painting the eyelids to make the eyes look large, lustrous and languishing is often alluded to in the Old Testament, and still extensively prevails among the women of the East, and especially among the Mohammedans. Jezebel, in (2 Kings 9:30) is said to have prepared for her meeting with Jehu by painting her face, or, as it reads in the margin, "put her eyes in paint." See also (Ezekiel 23:40) A small probe of wood, ivory or silver is wet with rose-water and dipped in an impalpable black powder, and is then drawn between the lids of the eye nearly closed, and leaves a narrow black border, which is though a great ornament. --ED.)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Eye

The same Hebrew word means both eye and fountain. Besides its common use, to denote the organ of sight, it is often used figuratively in the Bible. Most of these passages, however, require no explanation. The custom of sealing up the eyes of criminals, still practiced in the East, is thought to be alluded to in Isaiah 6:10 44:18. The expression, "As the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters," Psalm 123:2, is elucidated by a knowledge of the fact that many eastern servants are taught to stand always upon the watch, and are in general directed by a nod, a wink, or some slight motion of the fingers imperceptible to strangers. Many Scripture phrases intimate the soul-like nature of the eye, quickly and truly expressing the thoughts of the heart: such as "the bountiful eye" and the "evil eye," Proverbs 22:9 23:6; "haughty eyes" and "wanton eyes," Proverbs 6:17 Isaiah 3:16. "The lust of the eyes," 1 John 2:16, expresses a craving for any of the gay vanities of this life. The threatening against "the eye that mocketh at his father," Proverbs 30:17, is explained by the habit of birds of prey, which attack the eyes of a living enemy, and quickly devour those of the dead. A "single" eye, Matthew 6:22, is one which is clear, and sees every object as it is.

There are allusions in the Bible, and in many ancient and modern writers, to the practice of painting the eyelids, to make the eyes appear large, lustrous, and languishing. Jezebel, 2 Kings 9:30, is said to have "painted her face," literally, "put her eyes in paint." This was sometimes done to excess, Jeremiah 4:30; and was practiced by abandoned women, Proverbs 6:25. A small probe of wood, ivory, or silver, is wet with rose water, and dipped in an impalpable powder; this is then drawn between the lids of the eye nearly closed, and leaves a narrow black border which is thought a great ornament. The powder for this purpose, called kohol, is made by burning a kind of aromatic resin, and sometimes of lead ore and other substances, for the benefit of the eyes. In Persia this custom is as common among the men as among the women; so also in ancient Egypt, as the Theban monuments show. "The females of Arabia," Niebuhr says, "color their nails blood-red, and their hands and feet yellow, with the herb Al-henna. (See CAMPHIRE.) They also tinge the inside of their eyelids coal-black with kochel, a coloring material prepared from lead ore. They not only enlarge their eyebrows, but also paint other figures of black, as ornaments, upon the face and hands. Sometimes they even prick through the skin, in various figures, and then lay certain substances upon the wounds, which eat in so deeply, that the ornaments thus impressed are rendered permanent for life. All this the Arabian women esteem as beauty."

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Hebrews `ain, meaning "flowing"), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Numbers 11:7; R.V., "appearance, " marg. "eye"); (3) the face (Exodus 10:5, 15; Numbers 22:5, 11), in Numbers 14:14, "face to face" (R.V. marg., "eye to eye"). "Between the eyes", i.e., the forehead (Exodus 13:9, 16).

The expression (Proverbs 23:31), "when it giveth his colour in the cup," is literally, "when it giveth out [or showeth] its eye." The beads or bubbles of wine are thus spoken of. "To set the eyes" on any one is to view him with favour (Genesis 44:21; Job 24:23; Jeremiah 39:12). This word is used figuratively in the expressions an "evil eye" (Matthew 20:15), a "bountiful eye" (Proverbs 22:9), "haughty eyes" (6:17 marg.), "wanton eyes" (Isaiah 3:16), "eyes full of adultery" (2 Peter 2:14), "the lust of the eyes" (1 John 2:16). Christians are warned against "eye-service" (Ephesians 6:6; Colossians 3:22). Men were sometimes punished by having their eyes put out (1 Samuel 11:2; Samson, Judges 16:21; Zedekiah, 2 Kings 25:7).

The custom of painting the eyes is alluded to in 2 Kings 9:30, R.V.; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezek. 23:40, a custom which still prevails extensively among Eastern women.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

2. (n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.

3. (n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

4. (n.) The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.

5. (n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.

6. (n.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.

7. (n.) That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance

8. (n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.

9. (n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.

10. (n.) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

11. (n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.

12. (n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

13. (n.) The hole through the head of a needle.

14. (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.

15. (n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

16. (n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

17. (n.) Tinge; shade of color.

18. (v. t.) To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.

19. (v. i.) To appear; to look.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

APPLE, OF THE EYE

ap'-'-l: The eyeball, or globe of the eye, with pupil in center, called "apple" from its round shape. Its great value and careful protection by the eyelids automatically closing when there is the least possibility of danger made it the emblem of that which was most precious and jealously protected. The Hebrew terms for it were, 'ishon, diminutive of 'ish, "man," little man or mannikin, referring perhaps specially to the pupil, probably from "the little image one sees of himself when looking into another's pupil" (Davies' Lexicon). "He kept him (Israel) as the apple of his eye" (Deuteronomy 32:10); "Keep me as the apple of the eye," literally, "as the apple, the daughter of the eye" (Psalm 17:8). "Keep my law (the Revised Version, margin "teaching") as the apple of thine eye" (Proverbs 7:2). Compare Proverbs 7:9 where it is used to denote what is the center (American Revised Version, "in the middle of the night"; the English Revised Version "in, the blackness of night"; margin "Hebrew pupil (of the eye)"); babhah perhaps an "opening," "gate"; others regard it as a mimetic word akin to Latin pupa, papilla ("He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye," i.e. Yahweh's; Zechariah 2:8); bath-`ayin, "daughter of the eye"; "Give thyself no respite, let not the apple of thine eye cease" (Lamentations 2:18), which means, either "sleep not," or "cease not to weep." kore, "young girl," "pupil of the eye": "He (the Lord) will keep the good deeds (the Revised Version (British and American) "bounty") of a man as the apple of the eye" (Ecclesiasticus 17:22); the Septuagint also has kore in all instances except Lamentations 2:18, where it has thugater, "daughter."

W. L. Walker

EVIL EYE

(ra` `ayin, "evil of eye"; ophthalmos poneros):

The superstition of the influence of the "evil eye," so widely spread over the earth, has had a mighty influence on life and language in Palestine, though direct references to it are not frequent in the Scriptures (Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 28:54, 56 Proverbs 23:6; Proverbs 28:22 Matthew 20:15 (compare Matthew 6:23 Luke 11:34); Mark 7:22). In the Bible the expression is synonymous with envy, jealousy and some forms of covetousness. In comparing Romans 1:29 with Mark 7:22 we find that ophthalmos poneros corresponds to phthonos. See Trench, New Testament Synonyms, under the word The eye of the envious (as also the tongue of the invidious by an apparently appreciative word, which, however, only disguises the strong desire of possessing the object of comment or of destroying it for its rightful owner) was supposed to have a baneful influence upon the wellbeing of others, especially of children. Therefore mothers bestowed constant care against the frustration of such fancied designs by means of innumerable sorts of charms. They often allowed their darlings to appear as unlovely as possible, through uncleanliness or rags, so as to spare them the harmful rising of envy in the hearts of others.

Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, gives perhaps the most accessible account of this superstition as held at the present day in Egypt, and Thomson, The Land and the Book, does the same for Palestine, while an equal amount of evidence might be collected from every other oriental country. Instances of the same superstition, though possibly slightly disguised, are by no means wanting among ourselves. Compare the expression, "green-eyed jealousy" (Othello, III, iii; Merchant of Venice, III, ii), etc.

For certain Biblical phrases referring to the "evil eye" see ENVY; EYE.

LITERATURE.

F. T. Elworthy, The Evil Eye, London, 1895.

H. L. E. Luering

EYE

i (`ayin; ophthalmos):

(1) The physical organ of sight, "the lamp of the body" (Matthew 6:22), one of the chief channels of information for man. A cruel custom therefore sanctioned among heathen nations the putting out of the eyes of an enemy or a rival, because thus his power was most effectually shattered (Judges 16:21 2 Kings 25:7 Jeremiah 39:7). Such blinding or putting out of the "right eye" was also considered a deep humiliation, as it robbed the victim of his beauty, and made him unfit to take his part in war (1 Samuel 11:2 Zechariah 11:17).

The eye, to be useful, was to be "single," i.e. not giving a double or uncertain vision (Matthew 6:22 Luke 11:34). Eyes may grow dim with sorrow and tears (Job 17:7), they may "waste away with griefs" (Psalm 6:7; Psalm 31:9; Psalm 88:9). They may "pour down" (Lamentations 3:49), "run down with water" (Lamentations 1:16; Lamentations 3:48). Eyes may "wink" in derision (Psalm 35:19 Proverbs 6:13; Proverbs 10:10; compare also Proverbs 16:30; Proverbs 30:17), and the harlot takes the lustling "with her eyelids" (Proverbs 6:25). To `lift up the eyes' (Genesis 13:10 et passim) means to look up or around for information and often for help; to `turn away the eye' or `hide the eyes' indicates carelessness and lack of sympathy (Proverbs 28:27); to `cast about the eyes,' so that they "are in the ends of the earth" (Proverbs 17:24) is synonymous with the silly curiosity of a fool, and with the lack of attention of him who is everywhere but at his work. In the execution of justice the "eye shall not pity," i.e. not be deflected from the dictates of the law by favorable or unfavorable impressions (Deuteronomy 19:13 et passim), nor spare (Ezekiel 5:11 et passim), and the lexicon talionis demanded "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Exodus 21:24 Deuteronomy 19:21).

(2) Figurative: The eye of the heart or mind, the organ of spiritual perception, which may be enlightened or opened (Psalm 119:18). This is done by the law of God (19:8) or by the spirit of God (Ephesians 1:18), or it may be "darkened" and "holden" (Luke 24:16; compare Matthew 13:13 2 Corinthians 4:4).

(3) The eye as an index of the mind and disposition of man. The Bible speaks of the "good" margin, or "bountiful" eye, i.e. the kindly, disposition (Proverbs 22:9); of "proud", "haughty", "lofty eyes" (Psalm 18:27; Psalm 131:1 Proverbs 6:17); of the "lowly eyes" of the humble (Job 22:29 margin; compare also Luke 18:13); of "adulterous eyes", "eyes which play the harlot" (Ezekiel 6:9, in the sense of idolatrous inclinations; 2 Peter 2:14). Rage or anger is shown by the "sharpening" of the eyes (Job 16:9).

(4) The eyes of God, as well as the "seven eyes" of the Lamb (Revelation 5:6) and the `many eyes' of the four living creatures of the Apocalypse (Revelation 4:6; also Ezekiel 1:18; Ezekiel 10:12) are figurative expressions for the omniscience of God (compare Hebrews 4:13 Psalm 139:16) and of His watchfulness and loving care (Jeremiah 32:19). As the human eye may, with the slightest glance or motion, give an indication, a command, so God is able to "guide" or "counsel" His obedient child "with his eye" (Psalm 32:8).

(5) Three Hebrew expressions are translated by "apple of the eye":

(a) 'ishon, literally, "the little man," which probably means the "pupil of the eye," it being the part of the eye in which the close onlooker may see his image reflected en miniature. Several oriental languages have very similar expressions (Deuteronomy 32:10 Psalm 17:8 Proverbs 7:2).

(b) babhah, literally, "the gate of the eye" (Zechariah 2:8).

(c) bath-`ayin, literally, "the daughter of the eye" (Psalm 17:8 Lamentations 2:18).

All these three phrases seem to indicate the pupil rather than the "apple of the eye," and designate the most sensitive part of the eye, which we protect with the greatest care. Thus the Scriptures declare, for our great comfort, that God will protect and care for those that are His own.

To eye (`awan, "to watch closely," "to look maliciously at"): "Saul eyed David from that day and forward" (1 Samuel 18:9).

See ENVY; EVIL EYE.

H. L. E. Luering

SINGLE, EYE

sin'-g'-l: Matthew 6:22 parallel Luke 11:34: "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." "Single" and "evil" here represent haplouis, and poneros. Poneros elsewhere in the New Testament means "wicked"; haplous occurs only here in the New Testament, but is very common in ordinary Greek and always has the meaning "simple." But in view of the context, most commentators take haplous here as meaning "normal," "healthy," and poneros as "diseased," so rendering "Just as physical enlightenment depends on the condition of the eye, so does spiritual enlightenment depend on the condition of the heart." This is natural enough, but it is not satisfactory, as it gives to haplous a unique sense and to poneros a sense unique in the 73 New Testament examples of the word. Moreover, the same expression, "evil eye," is found also in Matthew 20:15 Mark 7:22, where it means "jealousy" or "covetousness." With poneros = "covetous" haplous would = "generous"; and this rendition gives excellent sense in Matthew, where the further context deals with love of money. Yet in Luke it is meaningless, where the context is of a different sort, a fact perhaps indicating that Luke has placed the saying in a bad context. Or the Greek translation of Christ's words used by Matthew and Luke may have taken the moral terms haplous and poneros to translate physical terms ("healthy" and "diseased"?) employed in the original Aramaic. The Sinaitic Syriac version of Luke 11:36 may perhaps contain a trace of an older rendering. See Julicher, Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, II, 98-108.

Burton Scott Easton

DISEASES OF THE EYE

See EYES, DISEASES OF THE.

Greek

3788. ophthalmos -- the eye
... the eye. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: ophthalmos Phonetic Spelling:
(of-thal-mos') Short Definition: the eye Definition: the eye; fig: the ...
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3659. omma -- an eye
... 3658, 3659. omma. 3660 . an eye. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration:
omma Phonetic Spelling: (om'-mah) Short Definition: an eye Definition: an eye ...
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5168. trumalia -- a hole, eye (of a needle)
... a hole, eye (of a needle). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: trumalia
Phonetic Spelling: (troo-mal-ee-ah') Short Definition: the eye of a needle ...
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5169. trupema -- eye.
... 5168, 5169. trupema. 5170 . eye. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter ... the eye
of a needle. Word Origin variant reading for trema, qv. eye. ...
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5299. hupopiazo -- to strike under the eye
... to strike under the eye. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hupopiazo Phonetic
Spelling: (hoop-o-pee-ad'-zo) Short Definition: I bruise, worry, exhaust ...
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3442. monophthalmos -- having one eye
... having one eye. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: monophthalmos Phonetic
Spelling: (mon-of'-thal-mos) Short Definition: one-eyed Definition: one-eyed ...
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2854. kollourion -- eye salve.
... eye salve. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: kollourion Phonetic Spelling:
(kol-loo'-ree-on) Short Definition: eye-salve Definition: eye-salve. ...
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3787. ophthalmodoulia -- eye service
... eye service. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: ophthalmodoulia Phonetic
Spelling: (of-thal-mod-oo-li'-ah) Short Definition: service rendered only ...
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4493. rhipe -- any rapid movement, spec. a twinkling (of lights or ...
... a twinkling (of lights or the eye). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
rhipe Phonetic Spelling: (hree-pay') Short Definition: a glance, twinkle (of ...
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2855b. kollurion -- a small bread roll, an eye salve (shaped like ...
... 2855a, 2855b. kollurion. 2856 . a small bread roll, an eye salve (shaped like
a roll). Transliteration: kollurion Short Definition: roll. Word Origin dim. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5869. ayin -- an eye
... 5868, 5869. ayin. 5870 . an eye. Transliteration: ayin Phonetic Spelling:
(ah'-yin) Short Definition: eyes. Word Origin of uncertain ...
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892. babah -- the apple (of the eye)
... 891, 892. babah. 893 . the apple (of the eye). Transliteration: babah Phonetic
Spelling: (baw-baw') Short Definition: apple. ... apple of the eye. ...
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5870. ayin -- an eye
... 5869, 5870. ayin. 5870a . an eye. Transliteration: ayin Phonetic Spelling:
(ah'-yin) Short Definition: eye. eye (Aramaic) corresponding to ayin; an eye -- ...
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380. ishon -- the pupil (of the eye)
... 379, 380. ishon. 381 . the pupil (of the eye). Transliteration: ishon Phonetic
Spelling: (ee-shone') Short Definition: apple. ... apple of the eye, black, obscure ...
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5770. avan -- eye
... avan. 5770a . eye. Transliteration: avan Phonetic Spelling: (aw-van') Short
Definition: eye. eye Denominative from ayin; to watch (with jealosy) -- eye. ...
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5870a. ayin -- an eye
... an eye. Transliteration: ayin Short Definition: eyes. Word Origin (Aramaic)
corresponding to ayin Definition an eye NASB Word Usage eye (1), eyes (4). ...
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5870b. in -- to eye
... to eye. Transliteration: in Short Definition: suspicion. Word Origin denominative
verb from ayin Definition to eye NASB Word Usage looked at with suspicion (1). ...
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5770a. avan -- eye
... 5770, 5770a. avan. 5770b . eye. Transliteration: avan Short Definition: eye.
Word Origin see in. 5770, 5770a. avan. 5770b . Strong's Numbers.
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1323. bath -- daughter
... villages (17), woman (1), women (1). apple of the eye, branch, company, daughter,
first, old, owl, town,. From banah (as feminine of ...
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7335. razam -- to wink, flash
... root Definition to wink, flash NASB Word Usage flash (1). to twinkle the eye in
mockery: wink. A primitive root; to twinkle the eye (in mockery): wink. ...
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Library

A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible
A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible. <. A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible
Frank Nelson Palmer. Produced by Karina Aleksandrova ...
//christianbookshelf.org/palmer/a birds-eye view of the bible/

January the Tenth the Lust of the Eye
... JANUARY The Tenth THE LUST OF THE EYE. GENESIS xiii.10-18. Look at Lot. He was a
man of the world, sharp as a needle, having an eye to the main chance. ...
/.../jowett/my daily meditation for the circling year/january the tenth the lust.htm

The Eye or Hand Allegorized.
... Book XIII. 25. The Eye or Hand Allegorized. And it is possible to apply these
words also to our nearest kinsfolk, who are our members ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/25 the eye or hand.htm

On a Single Eye
... Third Series Sermon 118 On a Single Eye. "If thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 118 on a single.htm

The Offending Hand, or Foot, or Eye.
... Book XIII. 24. The Offending Hand, or Foot, or Eye. And it is well, then,
if the eye and the hand are deserving of praise, that ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/24 the offending hand or.htm

February the Twenty-Fifth the Fresh Eye
... FEBRUARY The Twenty-fifth THE FRESH EYE. "His compassions fail not ... never
fail. The fresh eye insures the sensitive heart. And our ...
/.../february the twenty-fifth the fresh.htm

A Bird's-Eye view of the Early Church
... A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE EARLY CHURCH. 'So the Church throughout all Judaea
and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/a birds-eye view of the.htm

An Eye-Witness's Account of the Crucifixion
... AN EYE-WITNESS'S ACCOUNT OF THE CRUCIFIXION. 'And He bearing His cross
went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which ...
/.../an eye-witnesss account of the.htm

Tatian Speaks as an Eye-Witness.
... Chapter XXXV."Tatian Speaks as an Eye-Witness. The things which I have
thus set before you I have not learned at second hand. ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter xxxv tatian speaks as an.htm

Cast Your Eye Round the Room in which You Sit...
... Chapter 17 Cast your eye round the room in which you sit� Cast your eye
round the room in which you sit, and select some three ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 17 cast your eye.htm

Thesaurus

Eye (145 Occurrences)
... marg. "eye"); (3) the face (Exodus 10:5, 15; Numbers 22:5, 11), in Numbers
14:14, "face to face" (RV marg., "eye to eye"). "Between ...
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Eye-witnesses (4 Occurrences)
Eye-witnesses. Eyewitnesses, Eye-witnesses. Ezar . Multi-Version
Concordance Eye-witnesses (4 Occurrences). Luke 1:2 ...
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Eye's (1 Occurrence)
...Eye's (1 Occurrence). Exodus 21:26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's
eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ...
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Eye-witness (2 Occurrences)
Eye-witness. Eye-sight, Eye-witness. Eyewitnesses . Multi-Version
Concordance Eye-witness (2 Occurrences). John 19:35 ...
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Eye-service (2 Occurrences)
Eye-service. Eyeservice, Eye-service. Eye-services . Multi-Version
Concordance Eye-service (2 Occurrences). Ephesians ...
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Eye-services (1 Occurrence)
Eye-services. Eye-service, Eye-services. Eyesight . Multi-Version
Concordance Eye-services (1 Occurrence). Colossians ...
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Eye-sight (1 Occurrence)
Eye-sight. Eyesight, Eye-sight. Eye-witness . Multi-Version Concordance
Eye-sight (1 Occurrence). 2 Samuel 22:25 Therefore ...
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Eye-brows (1 Occurrence)
Eye-brows. Eyebrows, Eye-brows. Eyed . Multi-Version Concordance
Eye-brows (1 Occurrence). Leviticus 14:9 But it shall ...
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Eye-salve (1 Occurrence)
Eye-salve. Eyesalve, Eye-salve. Eyeservice . Multi-Version Concordance
Eye-salve (1 Occurrence). Revelation 3:18 Therefore ...
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Mote (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A small particle of dust; a speck; as a mote
in one's eye. 2. (pp) of Mot. 3. (pres. subj.) of Mot. 4. (v.) See 1st Mot. ...
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Bible Concordance

Eye (145 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 5:38 "You have heard that it was said,'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 6:22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother,'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
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Matthew 20:15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
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Matthew 23:27 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones and of all that is unclean.
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Matthew 23:28 The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.
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Mark 7:22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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Mark 9:47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
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Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
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Luke 6:41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
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Luke 6:42 Or how can you tell your brother,'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
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Luke 11:34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
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Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
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John 1:18 No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.
(WEY)

Romans 1:20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
(BBE)

Romans 16:17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
(See NAS)

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."
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1 Corinthians 12:16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
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1 Corinthians 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
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1 Corinthians 12:21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."
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1 Corinthians 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
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Ephesians 6:6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
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Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
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Revelation 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
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Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
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Genesis 2:9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(BBE NIV)

Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
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Genesis 12:11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;
(BBE)

Genesis 44:21 You said to your servants,'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
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Genesis 45:20 And let not your eye regret your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt shall be yours.
(DBY YLT)

Exodus 10:5 and it hath covered the eye of the land, and none is able to see the land, and it hath eaten the remnant of that which is escaped, which is left to you from the hail, and it hath eaten every tree which is springing for you out of the field;
(YLT)

Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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Exodus 21:26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
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Leviticus 21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
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Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
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Numbers 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
(DBY YLT NAS)

Numbers 22:5 and he sendeth messengers unto Balaam son of Beor, to Pethor, which 'is' by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, 'Lo, a people hath come out of Egypt; lo, it hath covered the eye of the land, and it is abiding over-against me;
(YLT)

Numbers 22:11 Lo, the people that is coming out from Egypt and covereth the eye of the land, -- now come, pierce it for me; it may be I am able to fight against it, and have cast it out;'
(YLT)

Numbers 24:3 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
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Numbers 24:15 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
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Deuteronomy 7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
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Deuteronomy 13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
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Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
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Deuteronomy 19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
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Deuteronomy 19:21 Your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Deuteronomy 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
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Deuteronomy 28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
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Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Deuteronomy 33:28 And Israel doth tabernacle 'in' confidence alone; The eye of Jacob 'is' unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
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Judges 18:6 And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD."
(DBY RSV)

1 Samuel 2:29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'
(See RSV)

1 Samuel 2:32 You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
(See RSV)

1 Samuel 11:2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel."
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1 Samuel 18:9 Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
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1 Samuel 24:10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
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2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.
(See JPS)

2 Samuel 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.
(Root in BBE YLT)

2 Samuel 22:25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
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2 Chronicles 6:20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
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Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
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Job 7:7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
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Job 7:8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
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Job 10:18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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Job 13:1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
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Job 14:3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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Job 16:20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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Job 17:2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
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Job 17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Job 20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
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Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
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Job 28:7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
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Job 28:10 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
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Job 29:11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
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Job 31:16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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Job 39:29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
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Job 42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
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Psalms 6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
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Psalms 17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
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Psalms 31:9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
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Psalms 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
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Psalms 33:18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
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Psalms 35:19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
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Psalms 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
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Psalms 54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
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Psalms 73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
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Psalms 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
(See JPS)

Psalms 88:9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
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Psalms 92:11 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
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Psalms 94:9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
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Psalms 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
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Proverbs 6:13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;
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Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Subtopics

Eye

Eye for an Eye

Eye of Evil Desire, Never Satisfied

Eye: Anthropomorphic Uses of

Eye: The offending

The Eye of the Mind

The Eye: (Anointing With Eyesalve) of Healing by the Spirit

The Eye: (Open) Spiritual Illumination

The Eye: A Guard to be Set On