6079. aphaph
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aphaph: eyelid
Original Word: עַפְעַף
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: aphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (af-af')
Short Definition: eyelids

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from uph
Definition
eyelid
NASB Translation
breaking (1), eyelids (8), gaze (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[עַפְעַף] noun masculineJer 9:17 eyelid (Late Hebrew id.; from fluttering ?); — only dual construct (see below) and suffix עַפְעַמַּי Job 16:16; Psalm 132:4, עַפְעַמֶּיךָ Proverbs 4:25; Proverbs 6:4, etc.; — eyelids, usually nearly = eyes (6 t. "" עֵינַיִם), as weeping, עַפְעַמֵּינוּ Jeremiah 9:17; closed in sleep Psalm 132:4; Proverbs 6:4, compare of צַלְמָוֶת Job 16:16; looking Proverbs 4:25 compare Psalm 11:4 (of ׳י, testing men); used seductively by wanton women Proverbs 6:25; raised, in arrogance (' superciliousness ' Proverbs 30:13; figurative עַפְעַמֵּישָֿׁ֑חַר Job 3:9 eyelids of dawn, break of dawn, Job 41:10 (simile).



Strong's
dawning, eye-lid

From uwph; an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray -- dawning, eye-lid.

see HEBREW uwph

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