Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H380: אִישׁוֹן

ʼîyshôwn · pronounced ee-shone' · “pupil”

Definition

the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)

KJV translates it as: apple (of the eye), black, obscure.

Word origin: diminutive from H376 (אִישׁ);

Extended definition

1) pupil of the eye
2) middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H380 is translated

  • the pupil of ×3
  • the middle of ×1
  • a time of ×1

Bible verses with H380 (ʼîyshôwn)

ʼîyshôwn appears in 5 verses.

  • Deuteronomy 32:10

    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.

  • Psalms 17:8

    Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

  • Proverbs 7:2

    Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  • Proverbs 7:9

    In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

  • Proverbs 20:20

    Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.