# עַפְעַף (afaf)

Israeli respelling: af-af. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6079. 10 Old Testament occurrences.

an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray

King James renderings: dawning, eye-lid.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/afaf-h6079

## Occurrences

- [Job 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/9) — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- [Job 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/16) — My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- [Job 41:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/18) — By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- [Psalms 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/4) — The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- [Psalms 132:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/4) — I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
- [Proverbs 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/25) — Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- [Proverbs 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/4) — Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- [Proverbs 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/25) — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- [Proverbs 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/13) — There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- [Jeremiah 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/18) — And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.