Greek noun (masculine) · G3788
ὀφθαλμός
ophthalmosof-thal-mos'
eye
100 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ophthalmós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3788is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 27New Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3788
the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance)
The King James renders it: eye, sight.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ophthalmos is rendered "eye". It stands 100 times in the Greek text, across fourteen books.
- Twenty-four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29ὀφθαλμός
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- eyes65
- eye26
- an eye3
- of eyes2
- the eyes2
- gaze1
- of an eye1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀφθαλμοδουλεία | ophthalmodouleia | eye-service | Uses2 |
All 100, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὀφθαλμοὺς32
- ὀφθαλμοὶ12
- ὀφθαλμός11
- ὀφθαλμῶν11
- ὀφθαλμῷ8
- ὀφθαλμοῖς7
- ὀφθαλμοῦ6
- ὀφθαλμὸς4
- ὀφθαλμούς4
- ὀφθαλμοί3
- ὀφθαλμὸν1
- ὀφθαλμούς;¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural37N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural15N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular15N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural11N-GPM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular8N-DSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural7N-DPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular6N-GSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
Matthew
twenty-four uses
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’
- ὀφθαλμὸνophthalmonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Eye
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
- ὀφθαλμοίophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
“Lord,” they answered, “let our eyes be opened.”
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Mark
seven uses
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- ὀφθαλμὸςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an eye
‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: Eyes
Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Luke
seventeen uses
For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
- ὀφθαλμοίophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: gaze
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμῷophthalmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: eye
Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the eyes
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
John
eighteen uses
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
- ὀφθαλμοίophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
- ὀφθαλμούςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
- ὀφθαλμούςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
“What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
- ὀφθαλμούς;¶ophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
“That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
- ὀφθαλμούςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Acts
seven uses
After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see a thing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Romans
three uses
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
1 Corinthians
five uses
Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- ὀφθαλμὸςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an eye
If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
- ὀφθαλμόςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an eye
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
- ὀφθαλμὸςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
- ὀφθαλμοῦophthalmounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of an eye
Galatians
two uses
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Ephesians
one use
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Hebrews
one use
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
1 Peter
one use
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
2 Peter
one use
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
1 John
three uses
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
- ὀφθαλμοῖςophthalmoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Revelation
ten uses
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
- ὀφθαλμὸςophthalmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eye
The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- ὀφθαλμούςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of eyes
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of eyes
Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
- ὀφθαλμοὺςophthalmousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.
- ὀφθαλμοὶophthalmoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the eyes
‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- ὀφθαλμῶνophthalmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
