Strong’s H380 · Hebrew
אִישׁוֹן
ʼîyshôwn · ee-shone'
Origin diminutive from אִישׁ (H376);
Meaning the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)
In the King James Version apple (of the eye), black, obscure.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Proverbs 7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.