Vocabulary Form
ὀφθαλμός, -οῦ, ὁ
Definition

eye, sight

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ὀφθαλμο
Frequency
100
GK
4057
Cognates

Ophthalmology is the study of the eye.

Mnemonic Singing

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

Song

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.