אִישׁוֹן
ishon · pupil of the eye
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H380 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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ishon (אִישׁוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pupil of the eye”.
The pupil of the eye; what is guarded most carefully. Also the middle of the night.
How to say it
i·shon
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
- The centre of the eye: what one guards most.
- The darkest part of the night, when no light is left.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- blackness ×2
- like the pupil ×2
- as the pupil of the eye ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a land of wilderness, and in an emptiness of howling, a wasteland; he surrounded him, he cared for him, he guarded him like the pupil of his eye.
- Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the pupil of the eye; in the shadow of your wings hide me
- Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eye.
- Proverbs 7:9
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and deep darkness.
- Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father and his mother, his lamp will go out in the blackness of darkness.