ὀφθαλμός ophthalmós

Meaning

the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance)

In the King James Version: eye, sight

Derivation: from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι);

Where it is used

• Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
• Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’
• Matthew 6:22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
• Matthew 6:23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Matthew 7:3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
• Matthew 7:4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
• Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Matthew 9:29 Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
• Matthew 9:30 And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
• Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
• Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
• Matthew 17:8 And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
• Matthew 18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
• Matthew 20:15 Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• Matthew 20:33 “Lord,” they answered, “let our eyes be opened.”
• Matthew 20:34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him.
• Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Matthew 26:43 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
• Mark 7:22 greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and 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 Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.
• Mark 9:47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
• Mark 12:11 This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
• Mark 14:40 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.
• Luke 2:30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
• Luke 4:20 Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
• Luke 6:20 Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
• Luke 6:41 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
• Luke 6:42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Luke 10:23 Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
• Luke 11:34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
• Luke 16:23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• Luke 18:13 But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• Luke 19:42 and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
• Luke 24:16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
• Luke 24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.
• John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
• John 6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
• John 9:6 When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
• John 9:10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
• John 9:11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
• John 9:14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
• John 9:15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
• John 9:17 So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
• John 9:21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
• John 9:26 “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
• John 9:30 “That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
• John 9:32 Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
• John 10:21 But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
• John 11:37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
• John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
• John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
• Acts 1:9 After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.
• Acts 9:8 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see a thing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.
• Acts 9:18 At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
• Acts 9:40 Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
• Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Acts 28:27 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
• Romans 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”