βλέφαρον
eyelid
Where this word appears
Every passage where βλέφαρον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 16:16 βλέφαρον They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
- Psalms 10:4 βλέφαρον For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what has the righteous done?
- Psalms 131:4 βλέφαρον I will not give sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelids, nor rest to my temples,
- Proverbs 4:25 βλέφαρον Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent to just things.
- Proverbs 6:4 βλέφαρον Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;
- Proverbs 6:25 βλέφαρον Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 30:13 βλέφαρον A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.
- Jeremiah 9:17 βλέφαρον Thus says the Lord, Call you⌃ the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
About this word
About this word
βλέφαρον (blépharon), “eyelid,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
