What is the Strong's number for Ayin?

The Strong's number for Ayin (עַיִן) is H5869. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Ayin (Strong’s H5869): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Ayin mean?

Ayin (עַיִן, Strong's H5869) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape). The King James Bible translates it as 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).

Ayin (עַיִן) is the Hebrew word numbered H5869 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape). In the King James Bible it is translated affliction, outward appearance, before, think best, colour.

עַיִן

ʻayin · Hebrew

Strong’s H5869 · ah'-yin

Original wordעַיִן
Transliterationʻayin
Pronunciationah'-yin
Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
Strong’s numberH5869
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. probably a primitive word;

How the King James Bible translates 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). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Ayin appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Ayin (H5869) stands behind 839 English renderings in 788 verses across 37 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (74), Ezekiel (70), Psalms (65).

How the King James Bible renders Ayin, by count

eyes421 of 839 (50 percent)
sight216 of 839 (26 percent)
eye76 of 839 (9 percent)
seemeth14 of 839 (2 percent)
colour12 of 839 (1 percent)
well11 of 839 (1 percent)

Three places to read Ayin

Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
2 Samuel 3:36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
Psalms 135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Ayin in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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