Strong's Hebrew Concordance

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

1) eyelid
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.