Strong’s H6079 · Hebrew
עַפְעַף
ʻaphʻaph · af-af'
Origin from עוּף (H5774);
Meaning an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray
In the King James Version dawning, eye-lid.
In 10 verses of the King James Version
- Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Job 41:18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- Psalms 11:4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- Psalms 132:4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
- Proverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 30:13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- Jeremiah 9:18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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.