Word Study · Strong's H380 · Hebrew
אִישׁוֹן
ishon
ee-shone'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼîyshôwn
“the little man of the eye”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)
Rendered in the KJV as
apple (of the eye), black, obscure.
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן2
- בְּאִישׁ֥וֹן1
- בֶּאֱשׁ֥וּן1
- כְּאִישׁ֣וֹן1
How it is rendered · 3
- like [the] pupil of3
- in [the] middle of1
- in a time of1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
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- HR/Ncmsc · 5
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Where this word lives
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Proverbs3 occurrences
- Proverbs 7:2כְּאִישׁ֥וֹןkeishonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.here: like [the] pupil of
- Proverbs 7:9בְּאִישׁ֥וֹןbeishonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.here: in [the] middle of
- Proverbs 20:20בֶּאֱשׁ֥וּןbeishonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.here: in a time of