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Lexicon :: Strong's G3788 - ophthalmos

Aa
ὀφθαλμός
Transliteration
ophthalmos (Key)
Pronunciation
of-thal-mos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:375,706

Strong’s Definitions

ὀφθαλμός ophthalmós, of-thal-mos'; from G3700; the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance):—eye, sight.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x

The KJV translates Strong's G3788 in the following manner: eye (101x), sight (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x
The KJV translates Strong's G3788 in the following manner: eye (101x), sight (1x).

  1. the eye

  2. metaph. the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὀφθαλμός ophthalmós, of-thal-mos'; from G3700; the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance):—eye, sight.
STRONGS G3788:
ὀφθαλμός, ὀφθαλμοῦ, ὁ (from the root, ὀπ, to see; allied to ὄψις, ὄψομαι, etc.; Curtius, § 627), the Sept. for עַיִן (from Homer down), the eye: Matthew 5:38; Matthew 6:22; Mark 9:47; Luke 11:34; John 9:6; 1 Corinthians 12:16; Revelation 7:17; Revelation 21:4, and often; ῤιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ, 1 Corinthians 15:52; οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου εἶδον (see the remark in γλῶσσα, 1), Luke 2:30; cf. Luke 4:20; Luke 10:23; Matthew 13:16; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Revelation 1:7; (ἀνέβλεψαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί Matthew 20:34 R G); ἰδεῖν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς, Matthew 13:15; John 12:40; Acts 28:27; ὁρᾶν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς (see ὁράω, 1), 1 John 1:1; ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, desire excited by seeing, 1 John 2:16. Since the eye is the index of the mind, the following phrases have arisen: ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρός ἐστιν, i. e. thou art envious, Matthew 20:15; ὀφθαλμός πονηρός, envy, Mark 7:22 (עַיִן רַע, an envious man, Proverbs 23:6; Proverbs 28:22; cf. Sir. 34:13; בְּאָחִיך עֵינֲך רָעָה, thine eye is evil toward thy brother, i. e. thou enviest (grudgest) thy brother, Deuteronomy 15:9; ὀφθαλμός πονηρός φθονερός ἐπ' ἄρτῳ, Sir. 14:10; μή φθονεσάτω σου ὁ ὀφθαλμός, Tobit 4:7; the opposite, ἀγαθός ὀφθαλμός, is used of a willing mind, Sir. 32:10, 12 (Sir. 35:10, 12)); on the other hand, ὀφθαλμός πονηρός in Matthew 6:23 is a diseased, disordered eye, just as we say a bad eye, a bad finger (see πονηρός, 2 a. (where Luke 11:34)). κρατεῖν τούς ὀφθαλμούς τοῦ μή κτλ. (A. V. to hold the eyes i. e.) to prevent one from recognizing another, Luke 24:16; ὑπολαμβάνω τινα ἀπό τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τίνος, by receiving one to withdraw him from another's sight (A. V. received him out of their sight), Acts 1:9. Metaphorically, of the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing: ἐκρύβη ἀπό τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν σου, hidden from thine eyes, i. e. concealed from thee (cf. Buttmann, 320 (274)), Luke 19:42; διδόναι τίνι ὀφθαλμούς τοῦ μή βλέπειν, to crease one to be slow to understand, Romans 11:8 (cf. Buttmann, 267 (230)); τυφλουν τούς ὀφθαλμούς τίνος, John 12:40; 1 John 2:11; σκοτιζονται οἱ ὀφθαλμοί Romans 11:10; πεφωτίσμενοι ὀφθαλμοί τῆς διανοίας (cf. Buttmann, § 145, 6), Ephesians 1:18 Rec.; τῆς καρδίας (as in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 36, 2 [ET]), ibid. G L T Tr WH; ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς τίνος (פּ בְּעֵינֵי (cf. Buttmann, § 146, 1 at the end)), in the judgment (cf. our view) of one, Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:11; οὐκ ἐστι τί ἀπέναντι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τίνος, to neglect a thing (cf. our leave, put, out of sight), Romans 3:18; γυμνόν ἐστι τί τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς τίνος (see γυμνός, 2 a.), Hebrews 4:13; οἱ ὀφθαλμοί τοῦ κυρίου ἐπί δικαίους (namely, επι- (or απο-) βλέπουσιν, which is added in Psalm 10:4 (Ps. 11:4)), are (fixed) upon the righteous, i. e. the Lord looks after, provides for them, 1 Peter 3:12. Other phrases in which ὀφθαλμός occurs may be found under ἀνοίγω, p. 48b, ἁπλοῦς, διανοίγω 1, ἐξορύσσω 1, ἐπαίρω, p. 228a, καμμύω, μοιχαλίς a., προγράφω2
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
15:9
Psalms
10:4; 11:4
Proverbs
23:6; 28:22
Matthew
5:38; 6:22; 6:23; 13:15; 13:16; 20:15; 20:34; 21:42
Mark
7:22; 9:47; 12:11
Luke
2:30; 4:20; 10:23; 11:34; 11:34; 19:42; 24:16
John
9:6; 12:40; 12:40
Acts
1:9; 28:27
Romans
3:18; 11:8; 11:10
1 Corinthians
2:9; 12:16; 15:52
Ephesians
1:18
Hebrews
4:13
1 Peter
3:12
1 John
1:1; 2:11; 2:16
Revelation
1:7; 7:17; 21:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3788 matches the Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmos),
which occurs 100 times in 85 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 2 / 2 (Jhn 12:40–Rev 21:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:40 - “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:1 - After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:9 - After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:8 - Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:18 - Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:40 - Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:18 - to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27 - For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:18 - “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:10 - May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”[fn]— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16 - And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17 - If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:21 - The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:52 - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:1 - You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:15 - Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:18 - I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:13 - Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12 - For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:14 - With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 1:1 - That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:11 - But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16 - For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:7 - “Look, he is coming with the clouds,”[fn] and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”[fn] So shall it be! Amen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:14 - The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:18 - “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:18 - I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:6 - Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:8 - Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’[fn] who was, and is, and is to come.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:6 - Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits[fn] of God sent out into all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:17 - For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’[fn] ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:12 - His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:4 - ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[fn] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

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