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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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Proverbs 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
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Proverbs 25:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for it is better to be told, “Come up here!” than to be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,
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Proverbs 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
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Proverbs 26:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Proverbs 26:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
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Proverbs 27:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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Proverbs 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man with discernment sees through him.
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Proverbs 28:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
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Proverbs 28:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.
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Proverbs 29:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
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Proverbs 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
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Proverbs 30:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
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Proverbs 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
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Ecclesiastes 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
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Ecclesiastes 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
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Ecclesiastes 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
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Song of Solomon 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
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Song of Solomon 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
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Song of Solomon 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
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Song of Solomon 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
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Song of Solomon 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.
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Song of Solomon 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
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Song of Solomon 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
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Isaiah 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Isaiah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
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Isaiah 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
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Isaiah 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
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Isaiah 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
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Isaiah 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
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Isaiah 5:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
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Isaiah 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
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Isaiah 6:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
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Isaiah 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
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Isaiah 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,
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Isaiah 13:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
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Isaiah 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
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Isaiah 17:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
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Isaiah 29:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
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Isaiah 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
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Isaiah 32:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
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Isaiah 33:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
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Isaiah 33:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.
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Isaiah 33:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
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