Definition

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

Etymology

probably a primitive word;

Where the KJV renders it

• affliction
• outward appearance
• before
• think best
• colour
• conceit
• be content
• countenance
• displease
• eye((-brow)
• (-d)
• -sight)
• face
• favour
• fountain
• furrow (from the margin)
• him
• humble
• knowledge
• look
• ( well)
• me
• open(-ly)
• (not) please
• presence
• regard
• resemblance
• sight
• thee
• them
• think
• us
• well
• you(-rselves)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.