ὄμμα
ómma · G3659 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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The organ of sight in humans and many animals, occurring in a pair in the face or elsewhere on the head (eye (normally including the eyelids))
ExamplesMatthew 20:34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.
Mark 8:23 Taking the man who was blind by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting in his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- σπλαγχνίζομαιto feel compassion for 1
- ἅπτωto ignite 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὀφθαλμός ophthalmós · G3788 · eye, seeing, sight
- Both denote the physical eye, with ὄμμα emphasizing the eye as the organ of sight or the act of seeing, while ὀφθαλμός is the standard term for the eye in both literal and figurative usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Eye8.23
- Describing the two blind men, Matthew 20:34 states “Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him,” where “eyes” renders this noun.
Word family 32 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀμματος, τό (from ό᾿πτομαι (see ὁράω), part ᾦμμαι), from Homer down, an eye: plural, Mt…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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