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title: עִין — eye · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עִין (lemma:עִין), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: eye. BDB 1906: vb.denom. eye look at Pôʿēl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עִין

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«עִין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **eye** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:עִין · **BDB:** עִין

### Glosses

looking.suspiciously.at (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עִין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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