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# עַפְעַפִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6079

**eyelid** — used 10 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

eyelid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6079/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַפְעַף: n.m. eyelid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6079/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 9:17 eyelid (NH id.; from fluttering?);—only du. cstr. (v. infr.) and sf. עַפְעַפַּי Jb 16:16 ψ 132:4, עַפְעַפֶּיךָ Pr 4:25; 6:4, etc.;—eyelids, usually nearly = eyes (6 times ‖ עֵינַיִם), as weeping, עַפְעַפֵּינוּ Je 9:17; closed in sleep ψ 132:4 Pr 6:4, cf. of צַלְמָוֶת Jb 16:16; looking Pr 4:25 cf. ψ 11:4 (of י׳, testing men); used seductively by wanton women Pr 6:25; raised, in arrogance (‘superciliousness’) 30:13; fig. עַפְעַפֵּי־שָׁ֑חַר Jb 3:9 eyelids of dawn, break of dawn, 41:10 (sim.).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: eyelids (10).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.13/#tree)

דּ֭וֹר מָה־רָמ֣וּ עֵינָ֑יו וְ֝עַפְעַפָּ֗יו יִנָּשֵֽׂאוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.generation how! they.are.raised eyes its and eyelids its they.are.lifted.up

*JPS 1917:* There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

[Job 16:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.16/#tree)

פָּנַ֣י חֳ֭מַרְמְרוּ מִנִּי־בֶ֑כִי וְעַ֖ל עַפְעַפַּ֣י צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* face my they.are.reddened from weeping and.\[is\] on eyelids my deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6079.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6079/): 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).