ophthalmos · eye

What it means

ophthalmos (ὀφθαλμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “eye”.

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 organ of sight, in the face.
2. The way one looks and desires.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Eye, the organ of sight; figuratively, one's gaze, one's way of seeing and desiring. Thayer: the eye; figuratively, the eyes of the mind.

• “An eye for an eye” Matthew 5:38
• “The lamp of the body is the eye” Matthew 6:22
• The speck in the brother's eye Matthew 7:3
• Eyes that see: healing and promise Mark 8:25Luke 2:30Matthew 13:16
• “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes” Revelation 21:4

How we translate it

“Eyes” 69 times, “eye” 30, “sight” 1. The Greek phrase “an evil eye” is kept (Mark 7:22, with a note), and the other figurative uses as in the original.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• eyes ×69
• eye ×30
• sight ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×24
• Mark×7
• Luke×17
• John×18
• Acts×7
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×5
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1
• 1 John×3
• Revelation×10

• Matthew 5:29

  And if your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.

• Matthew 5:38

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

• Matthew 6:22

  “The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light;

• Matthew 6:23

  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

• Matthew 7:3

  And why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the beam in your own eye?

• Matthew 7:4

  Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, the beam is in your own eye?

• Matthew 7:5

  Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

• Matthew 9:29

  Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be done for you.”

• Matthew 9:30

  And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows about it.”

• Matthew 13:15

  For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’

• Matthew 13:16

  But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

• Matthew 17:8

  And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone.

• Matthew 18:9

  And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life with one eye than having two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.

• Matthew 20:15

  Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

• Matthew 20:33

  They say to him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus says to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

• Matthew 26:43

  And coming again, he found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

• Mark 7:22

  adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

• Mark 8:18

  Having eyes, do you not see, and having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

• Mark 8:25

  Then again he laid his hands on his eyes, and he looked intently and was restored, and he was seeing everything clearly.

• Mark 9:47

  And if your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,

• Mark 12:11

  this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

• Mark 14:40

  And again coming, he found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer him.

• Luke 2:30

  for my eyes have seen your salvation,

• Luke 4:20

  And rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

• Luke 6:20

  And he, lifting up his eyes to his disciples, was saying, “Happy are the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God.

• Luke 6:41

  And why do you see the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, but the beam that is in your own eye you do not notice?

• Luke 6:42

  How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the beam in your eye? Hypocrite, first take out the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.

• Luke 10:23

  And turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Happy are the eyes that see what you see.

• Luke 11:34

  The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is healthy, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

• Luke 16:23

  And in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

• Luke 19:42

  saying, “If you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

• Luke 24:16

  but their eyes were held so as not to recognize him.

• Luke 24:31

  And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from them.

• John 4:35

  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest comes’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already

• John 6:5

  So when Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he says to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?”

• John 9:6

  Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud from the saliva, and he spread the mud on his eyes,

• John 9:10

  So they were saying to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

• John 9:11

  He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and spread it on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”

And 60 more times.