Exodus 21:24
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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Eye
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Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
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16 occurrences in 10 verses.
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This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Exodus
42 verses
Leviticus
32 verses
Deuteronomy
1210 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Job
1413 verses
Psalms
1111 verses
Proverbs
77 verses
Ecclesiastes
22 verses
Isaiah
43 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Lamentations
76 verses
Ezekiel
88 verses
Micah
11 verses
Zechariah
32 verses
Matthew
1610 verses
Mark
43 verses
Luke
104 verses
1 Corinthians
55 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עַיִן
ʻayin · ah'-yin
76 times translated as this KJV form839 total Strong's occurrences
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, before, think best, colour, conceit, be content, countenance, displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), × him, humble, knowledge, look, ( well), × me, open(-ly), (not) please, presence, regard, resemblance, sight, × thee, × them, think, × us, well, × you(-rselves).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:24Strong's last: Zechariah 11:17
Open full H5869 profile →ὀφθαλμός
ophthalmós · of-thal-mos'
28 times translated as this KJV form107 total Strong's occurrences
the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eye, sight.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:29Strong's last: Revelation 1:7
Open full G3788 profile →μονόφθαλμος
monóphthalmos · mon-of'-thal-mos
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
one-eyed
Strong's KJV usage: :--with one eye.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 18:9Strong's last: Mark 9:47
Open full G3442 profile →τρυμαλιά
trymaliá · troo-mal-ee-ah'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an orifice, i.e. needle's eye
Strong's KJV usage: :--eye.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 10:25Strong's last: Luke 18:25
Open full G5168 profile →τρύπημα
trýpēma · troo'-pay-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an aperture, i.e. a needle's eye
Strong's KJV usage: :--eye.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:24Strong's last: Matthew 19:24
Open full G5169 profile →בַּת
bath · bath
1 times translated as this KJV form588 total Strong's occurrences
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, × first, × old, owl, town, village.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 17:8Strong's last: Psalms 17:8
Open full H1323 profile →עַיִן
ʻayin · ah'-yin
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
an eye
Strong's KJV usage: eye.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 5:5Strong's last: Ezra 5:5
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H5869
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
H5869
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
H5869
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
H5869
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
H5869
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
H5869
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
H5869
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
H5869
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
H5869
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
H5869
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
H5869
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
H5869
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
H5869
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
H5869
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
H5869
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
H5869
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
H5869
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
H5869
He 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.
H5869
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
no direct Strong's tag
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
no direct Strong's tag
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
H5870
But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
H5869
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
H5869
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
H5869
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
English meaning and historical usage.
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eye
EYE, noun pronounced as I. [Latin oculus, a diminutive. The old English plural was eyen, or eyne.]
1. The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit. The eye is nearly of a spherical figure, and composed of coats or tunics. But in the term eye we often or usually include the ball and the parts adjacent.
2. Sight; view; ocular knowledge; as, I have a man now in my eye In this sense, the plural is more generally used.
Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. Galatians 3:1.
3. Look; countenance.
I'll say yon gray is not the morning's eye
4. Front; face.
Her shall you hear disproved to your eyes.
5. Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye
6. Aspect; regard; respect; view.
Booksellers mention with respect the authors they have printed, and consequently have an eye to their own advantage.
7. Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.
After this jealousy, he kept a strict eye upon him.
8. View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.
It hath, in their eye no great affinity with the form of the church of Rome.
9. Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.
10. Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.
11. A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.
12. A small catch for a hook; as we say, hooks and eyes. in nearly the same sense, the word is applied to certain fastenings in the cordage of ships.
13. The bud of a plant; a shoot.
14. A small shade of color. [Little used.]
Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
15. The power of perception.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Ephesians 1:18.
16. Oversight; inspection.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
The eyes of a ship, are the parts which lie near the hawse-holes, particularly in the lower apartments.
To set the eyes on, is to see; to have a sight of.
To find favor in the eyes, is to be graciously received and treated.
EYE, noun A brood; as an eye of pheasants.
EYE, verb transitive To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention.
EYE nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies.
EYE, verb intransitive To appear; to have an appearance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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