afaf · eyelid

What it means

afaf (עַפְעַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “eyelid”.

An eyelid; also an eyelash. In poetry, "the eyelids of the dawn" are the first rays of morning.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The eyelid, the skin that closes the eye; joined with "dawn", the first rays of the sun.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Jeremiah×1

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it hope for light and there be none, and may it not see the eyelids of the dawn,

• Job 16:16

  My face is red from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

• Job 41:18

  Its sneezings make shine light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

• Psalms 11:4

  YHWH is in his holy temple; YHWH, in the heavens is his throne; his eyes see, his eyelids test human beings.

• Psalms 132:4

  I will not give sleep to my eyes, to my eyelids drowsiness,

• Proverbs 4:25

  Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids be directed straight before you.

• Proverbs 6:4

  Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

• Proverbs 6:25

  Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids.

• Proverbs 30:13

  A generation —how lofty are its eyes, and its eyelids are lifted up.

• Jeremiah 9:18

  and let them hurry and raise over us a wailing, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.