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ὀφθαλμός

Vocabulary form: 
ojfqalmovV, -ou:, oJ
Definition: 

eye, sight

Frequency: 
100
GK: 
4057
Root: 
ojfqalmo
Cognates: 

Ophthalmology is the study of the eye.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Turn your eyes upon Jesus;
look full in His wonderful face.

Mnemonics

I can't really do it on the computer, but the omicron, phi, and theta create an eye, nose, eye if you draw a smile under them.

A huge book fell OFF THE MASSive shelf, and it hit me square in the EYE.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye (ophthalmon | ὀφθαλμόν | acc sg masc) for an eye (ophthalmou | ὀφθαλμοῦ | gen sg masc) and a tooth for a tooth.’
Matthew 6:22 “The lamp of the body is the eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc). If then your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) is healthy, your whole body will be filled with light;
Matthew 6:23 but if your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) is evil, your whole body will be filled with darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 7:3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc) but pay no attention to the log in your own eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc)?
Matthew 7:4 Or how dare you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ (ophthalmou | ὀφθαλμοῦ | gen sg masc) and look, there is a log in your own eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc)?
Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye (ophthalmou | ὀφθαλμοῦ | gen sg masc), and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye (ophthalmou | ὀφθαλμοῦ | gen sg masc).
Matthew 9:29 Then he touched their eyes (ophthalmōn | ὀφθαλμῶν | gen pl masc) and said, “According to your faith may it be done to you.”
Matthew 9:30 And their eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) were opened. Then Jesus sternly charged them, “See that no one knows about this.”
Matthew 13:15 For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes (ophthalmois | ὀφθαλμοῖς | dat pl masc) and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc), because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
Matthew 17:8 And when they raised their eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc), they saw no one except Jesus himself alone.
Matthew 18:9 And if your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Matthew 20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Matthew 20:33 They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) be opened.”
Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’ (ophthalmois | ὀφθαλμοῖς | dat pl masc)?
Matthew 26:43 Then he returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) were heavy.
Mark 7:22 adulteries, greedy actions, wicked deeds, deceit, sensuality, selfishness (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc), slander, arrogance, lack of moral sense.
Mark 8:18 Having eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc), do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Mark 8:25 Then Jesus again put his hands on the man’s eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc), and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw all things distinctly.
Mark 9:47 And if your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) causes you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God having one eye than having two eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) to be cast into hell,
Mark 12:11 this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” (ophthalmois | ὀφθαλμοῖς | dat pl masc)
Mark 14:40 And again, returning, he found them sleeping, for their eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) were heavy, and they did not know how they should answer him.
Luke 2:30 because my eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) have seen your salvation,
Luke 4:20 When he had rolled the scroll and given it back to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
Luke 6:20 Then, looking up at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 6:41 “Why do you look at the speck in the eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc) of your brother, but do not notice the beam in your own eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc)?
Luke 6:42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc) when you yourself don’t see the log that is in your own eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc)? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye (ophthalmou | ὀφθαλμοῦ | gen sg masc), and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye (ophthalmō | ὀφθαλμῷ | dat sg masc).
Luke 10:23 Having turned to the disciples, he said to them privately, “Fortunate are the eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) that see what you see!
Luke 11:34 Your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) is the lamp of the body. When your eye (ophthalmos | ὀφθαλμός | nom sg masc) is sound, then your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, then your body is full of darkness.
Luke 16:23 And being in torment in Hades, he lifted his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) and saw Abraham from afar and Lazarus at his side.
Luke 18:13 The tax collector, however, standing at a distance, would not even raise his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) to heaven, but kept beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 19:42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes (ophthalmōn | ὀφθαλμῶν | gen pl masc).
Luke 24:16 but their eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:31 At this point their eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) were opened, and they recognized him. Then he vanished from their sight.
John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, lift up your eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) and look at the fields; they are white, ready for harvest.
John 6:5 When Jesus lifted up his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”
John 9:6 After saying this, he spat on the ground and made mud with his saliva; then he daubed the mud on the man’s eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc)
John 9:10 So they asked him, “How then were your eyes (ophthalmoi | ὀφθαλμοί | nom pl masc) opened?”
John 9:11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, daubed it on my eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc), and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went there and washed, and I was able to see.”
John 9:14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc).
John 9:15 Then the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He daubed mud on my eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc), and I washed, and now I see.”
John 9:17 So they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since it was your eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) that he opened?” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
John 9:21 but how it is that he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc). Ask him, he is an adult. He will speak for himself.”
John 9:26 Therefore they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc)
John 9:30 The man responded to them, saying, “This is an amazing thing, that you do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes! (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc)
John 9:32 Not since time began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) of a man born blind.
John 10:21 Others were saying, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) of the blind?”
John 11:37 But some of them said, “Was not this man, who could open the eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) of the blind man, able to do something so that Lazarus would not have died?”
John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes (ophthalmous | ὀφθαλμούς | acc pl masc) and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

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