עַפְעַף
eyelid
‘eyelid’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct 6 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 4 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6079 appears — 10 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 3 verses
- Job 3:9 בְּ/עַפְעַפֵּי prep + n c mp cs Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
- Job 16:16 עַפְעַפַּ֣/י n c md cs + sfx pers 1cs My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
- Job 41:18 כְּ/עַפְעַפֵּי prep + n c md cs His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Psalms 2 verses
Proverbs 4 verses
- Proverbs 4:25 וְ֝/עַפְעַפֶּ֗י/ךָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
- Proverbs 6:4 לְ/עַפְעַפֶּֽי/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:25 בְּ/עַפְעַפֶּֽי/הָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 30:13 וְ֝/עַפְעַפָּ֗י/ו conj + n c md cs + sfx pers 3ms There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עפעף — transliterated ʻaphʻaph — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “eyelid.” Debuting at Job 3:9, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 10 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Proverbs. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6079 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 90%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eyelids 6×
- American Standard Version: Eyelids 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eyelids 3×, Eyes 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eyelids 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6079 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6079 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6079 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6079 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- eyelid
- of dawn, rays of sun (figuratively)
Word origin
Derived from עוף (ʻûwph) (H5774) — to fly.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H6079 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/עַפְעַפֵּי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Job 3:9 | 1 |
| בְּ/עַפְעַפֶּֽי/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 6:25 | 1 |
| וְ/עַפְעַפֵּ֖י/נוּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Jeremiah 9:18 | 1 |
| וְ֝/עַפְעַפֶּ֗י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 4:25 | 1 |
| וְ֝/עַפְעַפָּ֗י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Proverbs 30:13 | 1 |
| כְּ/עַפְעַפֵּי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Job 41:18 | 1 |
| לְ/עַפְעַפֶּֽי/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 6:4 | 1 |
| לְֽ/עַפְעַפַּ֥/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Psalms 132:4 | 1 |
| עַפְעַפַּ֣/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Job 16:16 | 1 |
| עַפְעַפָּ֥י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Construct | Psalms 11:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6079, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מועף mûwʻâph H4155 darkness
- מעוף mâʻûwph H4588 gloom
- עוף ʻôwph H5775 bird
- עיפה ʻêyphâh H5890 darkness
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
