Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H5870
עַיִן
ayinah'-yin
eye
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻayin
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5870is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5870
an eye
The King James renders it: eye.
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
ayin is rendered "eye". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
Ezra 5:5וְעֵ֣ין
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and eye of1
- and eyes1
- eye my1
- eyes1
- like eyes of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַיִן | ayin | eye | Uses887 |
| עַיִט | ayit | bird of prey | Uses8 |
| עַיִר | ayir | colt | Uses8 |
| עַיִשׁ | Ayish | Bear | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְעֵ֣ין1
- וְעַיְנִ֣ין1
- כְּעַיְנֵ֤י1
- עַיְנַ֣י׀1
- עַיְנִ֜ין1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncbsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1AC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1ANcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1ANcmpc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1AR/Ncmpc
Ezra
one use
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- וְעֵ֣יןveeinconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and eye of
Daniel
four uses
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- עַיְנַ֣י׀ʾaynainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: eye my
While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- עַיְנִ֜יןʾayninnoun · masculine pluraltagged: eyes
- כְּעַיְנֵ֤יkeayneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like eyes of
I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- וְעַיְנִ֣יןveayninconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and eyes
The letters
Gematria 130· 780 mispar gadol
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.