H6079: עַפְעַף
ʻaphʻaph · pronounced af-af' · “eyelid”
Definition
an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray
KJV translates it as: dawning, eye-lid.
Word origin: from H5774 (עוּף);
Extended definition
1a) eyelid
1b) of dawn, rays of sun (fig.)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6079 is translated
- the eyelids of ×2
- my ×2
- your ×2
- his ×1
- her ×1
- its ×1
- our ×1
Bible verses with H6079 (ʻaphʻaph)
ʻaphʻaph appears in 10 verses.
- Job 3:9
Let 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 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Job 41:18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
- Proverbs 4:25
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- Jeremiah 9:18
And 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.