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# עִין

Biblical Hebrew

**eye** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

eye [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִין: vb.denom. eye look at Pôʿēl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. eye (enviously), look (askance) at;— Pt. (or Pôʿēl, מ om., v. Dr), c. acc. עוֹיֵן 1 S 18:9 Qr (Kt עון).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: looking suspiciously at (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 18:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.9/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י שָׁא֖וּל עוֹיֵ֣ן אֶת־דָּוִ֑ד מֵהַיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא וָהָֽלְאָה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.was Saul looking.suspiciously.at (et) David from the day (the) that and onwards

*JPS 1917:* And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5df/): 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).