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# אִישׁוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H380

**pupil** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pupil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/380/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִישׁוֹן: pupil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/380/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pupil of eye (cf. DlHA 9 PrätLOPh, Feb. 1884, but also Ar. إِنْسَانٌ العَيْنِ, & NöZMG 1886, 739)—א׳ all cstr.—א׳ עַיִן Dt 32:10 Pr 7:2; א׳ בַּת־עַיִן ψ 17:8 (in all, sim. of preciousness); = middle, midst of night בְּא׳ לַיְלָה וַאֲפֵלָה Pr 7:9; בְּא׳ חֹשֶׁךְ 20:20 Kt i.e. in deep darkness (Qr בֶּאֱשׁוּן v. Now).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the pupil (2); middle (1); pupil (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.9/#tree)

בְּנֶֽשֶׁף־בְּעֶ֥רֶב י֑וֹם בְּאִישׁ֥וֹן לַ֝֗יְלָה וַאֲפֵלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* at twilight in.\[the\] evening of.\[the\].day in.\[the\] middle of.\[the\].night and darkness

*JPS 1917:* In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

[Psalms 17:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.8/#tree)

שָׁ֭מְרֵנִי כְּאִישׁ֣וֹן בַּת־עָ֑יִן בְּצֵ֥ל כְּ֝נָפֶ֗יךָ תַּסְתִּירֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* keep me like.\[the\] pupil of.\[the\].daughter of.an.eye in the.shadow your.wings your you will.hide.me

*JPS 1917:* Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shadow of Thy wings,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/380/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).