noun · neuter
ommem
Strong’sG3659
an eye
stem omm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὄμμα, -τος, τό, in cl. chiefly poët.;
[in LXX for עַיִן (Pr5, Wi2, IV Mac3)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3659 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidom'-mah
a sight, i.e. (by implication) the eye
Fromfrom G3700;
King Jameseye.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Aeolic dialect ὄππα Refs 7th c.BC+: τό:— eye, poetry word, rare in Prose Refs 8th c.BC+ only use plural, κατὰ χθονὸς ὄμματα πήξας Refs 8th c.BC+ —Phrases: ὀρθοῖς ὄμμασιν ὁρᾶν τινα look straight at, Refs 5th c.BC+; also οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὄμμασιν ποίοις βλέπων πατέρα ποτ᾽ ἂν προσεῖδον how I could have looked him in the face,Refs 5th c.BC+; ποῖον ὄ. πατρὶ δηλώσ; Refs; τέοισί με χρὴ ὄμμασι.. φαίνεσθα; Refs 5th c.BC+; λαμπρὸς ὄμματι radiant in look or expression, Refs 5th c.BC+; προσέσχον ὄ. turned their eyes on him, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς σὸν ἐλθεῖν ὄ. come within sight of thee, Refs; κατ᾽ ὄμματα before one's eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ὄμμα ἐλθεῖν face to face, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ὄμμα στῆναι in full sight, openly, Refs; opposed to νύκτωρ, Refs; κρατιστεύων κατ᾽ ὄμμα in eye-sight, of the Sun, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρευμενοῦς ἀπ᾽ ὄμματος ἰδέσθαι look kindly on, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὡς ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων to judge by the eye, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ὄμμασι before one's eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ὀμμάτων out of sight, Refs 4th c.BC+; πρὸ ὀμμάτων τίθεσθαι, ποιεῖν, Refs 4th c.BC+; πρὸ ὀ. θέσις Polystr. [prev. cited]
2 metaphorically, τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II the eye of heaven, i.e. the sun, ὄ. αἰθέρος Refs 5th c.BC+; but ὄ. νυκτός is a periphrasis for night (see. below see), ἕως.. νυκτὸς ὄμμ᾽ ἀφείλετο (i.e. τὴν μάχην) Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅταν δὲ νυκτὸς ὄ. λυγαίας μόλῃ the dark night, Refs 5th c.BC+
III generally, light: hence, metaphorically, that which brings light, ὄμμα ξείνοισι a light to strangers, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 metaphorically, anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye, ὄ. γὰρ πάσης χθονὸς.. ἐξίκοιτ᾽ ἄν Refs 4th c.BC+
IV face or human form, ὦ δυσθέατον ὄ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄ. νύμφας, ={νύμφα}, Refs; ξύναιμον ὄ., ={ξυναίμων}, Refs; ὦ ταυρόμορφον ὄ. Κηφισοῦ, ={ὦ ταυρόμορφε Κηφισέ}, Refs 5th c.BC+
V ὄ. τυκτόν eye-hole in a helmet, Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | ommem | ommeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | ommeu | ommeiu1×ὀμμάτων |
| to, for dative | omme | ommei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
omme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ommeiu“eyes”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 20:34splanchnizirantos de tos Iēsus hapteta teiu ommeiu autoiu, kai eutheōs anablepala kai akolouthala …Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their …
ommeim1×
Mark 8:23… tau kōmau, kai ptuarantos eis teim ommeim autou, epititharantos tain cheirain auto, eperōtate …… Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him …