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Word Study · Strong's H5869 · Hebrew

עַיִן

ayin

ah'-yin

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻayin

an eye (literally or figuratively)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

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).

  • 887
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 214
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 214

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣י64
  • בְּעֵינֵ֥י30
  • בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ13
  • לְעֵינֵ֖י10
  • בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙9
  • בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ9
  • עֵ֣ין9
  • בְּעֵינֵ֖י8
  • בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ8
  • לְעֵינֵ֣י7
  • עֵינָ֗יו7
  • לְעֵינֵ֥י6

and 202 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 75

  • in [the] eyes of107
  • in view your62
  • eyes your34
  • eyes his29
  • eyes my25
  • to [the] eyes of24
  • in view his19
  • in view my14
  • [the] eyes of11
  • to eyes your11
  • and in [the] eyes of9
  • eyes9

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 47

  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”)137
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular62
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular30
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular29
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular27
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular25
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular20
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural15
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)12
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”)11
  • noun · feminine dual11
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”)11
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Ncfdc · 137
  • HR/Ncfdc/Sp2ms · 62
  • HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms · 30
  • HNcfdc/Sp3ms · 29
  • HNcfdc/Sp2ms · 27
  • HNcfdc/Sp1bs · 25
  • HR/Ncfdc/Sp1bs · 20
  • HR/Ncfdc/Sp2mp · 15
  • HNcfsc · 12
  • HC/R/Ncfdc · 11
  • HNcfda · 11
  • HNcfdc · 11

The first 500 of 887, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis80 occurrences
Exodus35 occurrences
Leviticus16 occurrences
Numbers40 occurrences
Deuteronomy60 occurrences
Joshua11 occurrences
Judges19 occurrences
Ruth4 occurrences
1 Samuel43 occurrences
2 Samuel40 occurrences
1 Kings31 occurrences
2 Kings49 occurrences
1 Chronicles6 occurrences
Psalms66 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled עַיִן

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).