Strong's H5869 · Hebrew

`ayin

ah'-yin

probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H5869a

H5869a עַ֫יִן eye . lit. as physical organ . . eyes as showing mental qualities . desire of the eyes , abominations of the eyes . Fig. of mental and physical faculties, acts and states . Transferred mngs.: . visible surface of earth . appearance . gleam , sparkle . Other phrases are: an eye for an eye ; eye to eye ; in the presence of , in full view of ; of business transaction; on the forehead H5869b עַ֫יִן spring (of water)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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