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a.yin H5869

עַ֫יִן (a.yin) means “eye” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַ֫יִן Hebrew · H5869 887 tagged occurrences in 827 verses

Pronunciation guide: ah'-yin Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5869A

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye

: eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869B

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain (Gate)

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869G

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain of

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869H

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: seeing

: seeing 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869I

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: appearance

: appearance 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869J

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: before(the eyes)

: before(the_eyes) 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869K

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: sin

: sin 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869M

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · spring

spring, fountain

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

KJV glosses: affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).

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How translators render H5869

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	106
my eyes	51
your eyes	38
in the eyes	36
in your sight	29
eyes	27
his eyes	25
the eyes	19
eye	17
in my sight	16
in your eyes	16
in his sight	12
their eyes	11
with your own eyes	11
in his own eyes	10
in the presence	9
the eye	8
before their eyes	7
before your very eyes	6
before your eyes	5
in his eyes	5
in their sight	5
our eyes	5
sight	5
the spring	5
to the eyes	5
to you	5
and his eyes	4
and my eyes	4
as they watch	4
before his eyes	4
from my eyes	4
the face	4
the fountain	4
to him	4
your sight	4
before	3
before our eyes	3
her eyes	3
in full view	3
in my eyes	3
may your eyes	3
of your eyes	3
seemed	3
they have eyes	3
to my eyes	3
up my eyes	3
with his eyes	3
with my own eyes	3
with your eyes	3
you	3
a spring	2
and	2
and your eyes	2
as the eyes	2
but the eyes	2
do you really believe	2
him	2
his sight	2
in their own eyes	2
in your own eyes	2
let your eyes	2
look	2
look on them	2
me	2
of his eye	2
springs	2
to	2
to eye	2
to the spring	2
vvv	2
what you think	2
whose eyes	2
with eyes	2
your own eyes	2
a gleam	1
and as i watched	1
and as they watch	1
and eyes	1
and fountains	1
and his gaze	1
and in full view of the people	1
and in the presence	1
and it seemed	1
and its appearance	1
and let us feast our eyes	1
and let your eyes	1
and may the eyes	1
and the eyes	1
and those who	1
and thought	1
and turn their eyes	1
and watch	1
and your own eyes	1
appear to you	1
are their eyes	1
as for the eye	1
as he looks on	1
as i watched	1
as my eyes	1
as the gleam	1
as they watched	1
as you please	1
as you see	1
be	1
before them	1
but his eyes	1
but pay no regard	1
but your eyes	1
by	1
by the spring	1
by what his eyes	1
can see it	1
do you have eyes	1
do your eyes	1
every eye	1
eyesight	1
face	1
for eye	1
for myself	1
from	1
from his sight	1
from my sight	1
from the eyes	1
glance of your eyes	1
gleamed	1
gleaming	1
he sees	1
his eye	1
his eyes are	1
his eyes tightly	1
i valued	1
i will cause your eyes	1
i will not look upon you	1
in appearance	1
in my presence	1
in our eyes	1
in our own sight	1
in the sight of the people	1
in your presence	1
iniquity	1
is their iniquity	1
it seemed	1
it seems	1
it with your own eyes	1
let his eyes	1
let your eyes be on	1
like	1
like the gleam	1
look after	1
look in his eyes	1
man has eyes	1
may their eyes	1
my eyes favor	1
my sight	1
myself	1
of my eyes	1
of the eyes	1
of the springs	1
of their eyes	1
of your eye	1
our eyes are	1
our very eyes	1
pleased	1
presence	1
regard it	1
seem	1
show pity	1
sight of them	1
sight of this	1
so that you look upon	1
so the eyes	1
that our eyes	1
the gleam	1
the notice	1
the outward appearance	1
the well	1
them	1
then the eyes	1
this spring	1
thought	1
to displease	1
to face	1
to his eyes	1
to our eyes	1
to see	1
to the eye	1
to your eyes	1
to your face	1
transgression	1
turn your eyes	1
us	1
value	1
was a gleam	1
was also displeased	1
was like that	1
were pleased	1
what the eye	1
whatever seems	1
when the fountains	1
when they saw	1
wherever it seems	1
while they watch	1
while your eyes	1
who has an eye	1
who have eyes	1
whose eyesight	1
with my eyes	1
with their eyes	1
with you	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you considered	1
you please	1
you saw him	1
you will look	1
your eye	1
your eyes look	1
your very eyes	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	118
mine eyes	35
his eyes	33
in thy sight	27
thine eyes	27
in the eyes	22
the eyes	19
in my sight	16
mine eye	13
their eyes	13
eyes	12
in their sight	12
in thine eyes	12
eye	11
in his sight	10
pleased	10
and his eyes	9
before their eyes	9
before	7
in his own eyes	7
in your eyes	7
the eye	7
and thine eyes	6
your eyes	6
and mine eyes	5
and the eyes	5
before mine eyes	5
before your eyes	5
in mine eyes	5
of thine eyes	5
with thine eyes	5
and mine eye	4
as the colour	4
before his eyes	4
before thine eyes	4
displeased	4
from mine eyes	4
her eyes	4
in his eyes	4
in his own conceit	4
in the presence	4
in whose sight	4
of eyes	4
the face	4
well	4
which thine eyes	4
and in the sight	3
between thine eyes	3
for eye	3
from the eyes	3
in their own eyes	3
look	3
looks	3
now thine eyes	3
of the eyes	3
our eyes	3
that thine eyes	3
unto the well	3
what seemeth	3
with his eyes	3
and in the eyes	2
and in the presence	2
and their eyes	2
and thine eye	2
be in his sight	2
before our eyes	2
between his eyes	2
between your eyes	2
but having his eyes	2
but the eyes	2
but thine eyes	2
by a fountain	2
by the well	2
for his eyes	2
for mine eyes	2
for the eyes	2
from thine eyes	2
his colour	2
his eye	2
in her eyes	2
in our sight	2
in them in the sight	2
in your sight	2
it pleased	2
let thine eyes	2
not eyes	2
of his eye	2
of his eyes	2
of the fountain	2
of their eyes	2
of thine eye	2
thee in the sight	2
them before your eyes	2
thereof as the colour	2
thine eye	2
thinkest	2
to the eyes	2
unto thee	2
which have eyes	2
whose eyes	2
with mine eyes	2
with the eye	2
with their eyes	2
all that seemed	1
also	1
also was displeased	1
an open	1
and	1
and also in the sight	1
and as for me also mine eye	1
and at the fountain	1
and behold your eyes	1
and convenient	1
and eyes	1
and he thought	1
and his eye	1
and his eyebrows	1
and i will look well	1
and it displease	1
and it displeased	1
and it pleased	1
and let our eye	1
and let thine eyes	1
and no eye	1
and so we were in their sight	1
and that seemed good	1
and that the eyes	1
and the colour	1
and they seemed	1
and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes	1
and we were in our own sight	1
and what do thy eyes	1
and whatsoever mine eyes	1
and your eyes	1
and your own eyes	1
any more but thine eyes	1
are their eyes	1
as for us our eyes	1
as it seemeth	1
as seemed	1
as the eyes	1
as thine eyes	1
at the well	1
before the eyes	1
behold as the eyes	1
behold the eye	1
behold the eyes	1
but mine eyes	1
but now mine eye	1
but our eyes	1
but your eyes	1
by a well	1
by the fountain	1
countenance	1
displease	1
even the eyes	1
eyed	1
face	1
for me	1
for myself and mine eyes	1
for thine eyes	1
for us that our eyes	1
fountains	1
from his face	1
from me and with their eyes	1
from my sight	1
furrows	1
hast thou eyes	1
he was content	1
her eye	1
her face	1
her for me for she pleaseth me well	1
him and look well	1
him and they pleased	1
him before their eyes	1
himself in his own eyes	1
i pray you how mine eyes	1
i was eyes	1
if it seem good	1
if she please	1
in his eye	1
in his eye sight	1
in his eyesight	1
in mine own sight	1
in our eyes	1
in their eyes	1
in thine own eyes	1
in thine own sight	1
in thyself in the sight	1
in whose eyes	1
in you before	1
in you before their eyes	1
it displeased	1
it unto whom it seemed	1
it with his eyes	1
it with thine eyes	1
let i beseech thee thine eyes	1
let it not displease	1
let not your eye	1
let their eyes	1
like in colour	1
like the colour	1
like unto the colour	1
lo mine eye	1
looketh	1
me and i shall seem	1
me and when the eye	1
me in the eyes	1
me now therefore if it displease thee	1
neither hath the eye	1
neither have our eyes	1
neither is his eye	1
neither shall mine eye	1
neither shall thine eyes	1
nevertheless mine eye	1
no eye	1
no eyes	1
none eye	1
nor mine eyes	1
not his eyes	1
not in your eyes	1
not thine eyes	1
now mine eyes	1
now the eyes	1
now therefore in the sight	1
of fountains	1
of mine eyes	1
of the eye	1
of the fountains	1
of thee in the sight	1
of thy sight	1
of your eyes	1
on mine affliction	1
on the outward appearance	1
only with thine eyes	1
openly	1
or have caused the eyes	1
or the eye	1
our eye	1
out of his sight	1
over him in thy sight	1
peradventure it will please	1
person	1
pleased me well	1
seemeth	1
should seem vile	1
sight	1
so in the sight	1
so our eyes	1
so the eyes	1
that it pleased	1
that thou displease	1
that which seemeth	1
the fountain	1
the fountains	1
thee in the presence	1
thee not	1
thee thine eye	1
thee with mine eye	1
their eye	1
their resemblance	1
them and your eyes	1
them with her eyes	1
then it had pleased thee well	1
then the eyes	1
then was i in his eyes	1
thereof then your eyes	1
thereof when the eyes	1
thinking to have brought	1
thou mine eyes	1
thou unto us whatsoever seemeth	1
thought	1
thy eyes	1
thy face	1
to eye	1
to face	1
to her as it pleaseth thee	1
to him that which shall seem good	1
to him what shall seem good	1
to me as seemeth	1
to mine eyes	1
to the eye	1
to the well	1
to thee	1
to thine eyes	1
to whom they think	1
unto	1
unto him	1
unto him in the presence	1
unto him in the sight	1
unto him neither shall thine eye	1
unto thee but if it seem ill	1
unto them if ye think	1
unto them let mine eyes	1
unto them what seemeth	1
upon his eyes	1
upon his face	1
upon thee in the sight	1
upon thine eyes	1
us	1
was displeased	1
wells	1
what he thought	1
whatsoever seemeth	1
where it pleaseth	1
wheresoever it seemeth convenient	1
which pleaseth	1
whom	1
whom thine eyes	1
with me and doth not mine eye	1
with me as seemeth	1
with them as it seemeth	1
with them what seemeth	1
with us all that seemeth	1
with your eyes	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you	1

Verses containing H5869

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Genesis 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Genesis 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
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Genesis 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
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Genesis 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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Genesis 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Genesis 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
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Genesis 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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Genesis 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
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Genesis 16:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
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Genesis 16:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
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Genesis 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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Genesis 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
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Genesis 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
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Genesis 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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Genesis 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
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Genesis 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”
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Genesis 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”
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Genesis 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
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Genesis 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
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Genesis 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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Genesis 22:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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Genesis 22:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
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Genesis 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”
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Genesis 23:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
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Genesis 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
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Genesis 24:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
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Genesis 24:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
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Genesis 24:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
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Genesis 24:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
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Genesis 24:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
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Genesis 24:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
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Genesis 24:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
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Genesis 24:64 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
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Genesis 27:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
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Genesis 27:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
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Genesis 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
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Genesis 29:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
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Genesis 29:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
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Genesis 30:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
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Genesis 30:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
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Genesis 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
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Genesis 31:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
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Genesis 31:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
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Genesis 31:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
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Genesis 32:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
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Source alternate reference: 32.6
Genesis 33:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
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Genesis 33:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
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Genesis 33:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
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Genesis 33:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
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Genesis 33:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
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