The Eye
56 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
34 sections
- (Anointing with Eyesalve) of Healing by the Spirit
- (Open) Spiritual Illumination
- A Guard to be Set On
- Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Directing
- Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Seeing
- Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Weeping
- Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Winking
- Consumed by Grief
- Consumed by Sickness
- Frequently Fair
- God: Enlightens
- God: Formed
- God: Made
- God: Opens
- Grows Dim by Age
- Grows Dim by Sorrow
- Made Red by Wine
- Not Evil Thing to be Set Before
- Not Satisfied with Riches
- Not Satisfied with Seeing
- Often Put out As a Punishment
- Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Apple or Ball
- Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Brow
- Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Lid
- Punishment for Injuring
- Sometimes Blemished
- Sometimes Tender
- The Jewish Women often Painted
- The Jews: Cast, on the Ground in Humiliation
- The Jews: Not to Make Baldness Between
- The Jews: Raised Up, in Prayer
- The Jews: Wore Their Phylacteries Between
- The Light of the Body
- The Light of, Rejoices the Heart
(Anointing with Eyesalve) of Healing by the Spirit
- Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
(Open) Spiritual Illumination
- Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
- Psalm 119:37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
A Guard to be Set On
- Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Proverbs 23:31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Directing
- Numbers 10:31 “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
- Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Seeing
Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Weeping
- Job 16:20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- Psalm 88:9 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Actions of, Mentioned in Scripture: Winking
- Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
Consumed by Grief
- Psalm 6:7 My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
- Psalm 31:9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
Consumed by Sickness
- Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Frequently Fair
- 1 Samuel 16:12 So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
God: Enlightens
- Ezra 9:8 But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
- Psalm 13:3 Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
God: Formed
- Psalm 94:9 He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
God: Made
- Proverbs 20:12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.
God: Opens
- 2 Kings 6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
- Psalm 146:8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Grows Dim by Age
- Genesis 27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
- 1 Samuel 3:2 And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
Grows Dim by Sorrow
- Job 17:7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Made Red by Wine
- Genesis 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
- Proverbs 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Not Evil Thing to be Set Before
- Psalm 101:3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Not Satisfied with Riches
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile — a miserable task.
Not Satisfied with Seeing
- Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
Often Put out As a Punishment
- Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- 1 Samuel 11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
- 2 Kings 25:7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Apple or Ball
- Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Brow
- Leviticus 14:9 On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair — his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
Parts of Mentioned in Scripture: The Lid
- Job 16:16 My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
Punishment for Injuring
- Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 21:26 If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
- Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
- Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’
Sometimes Blemished
- Leviticus 21:20 or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
Sometimes Tender
- Genesis 29:17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
The Jewish Women often Painted
- 2 Kings 9:30 Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- Jeremiah 4:30 And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they …
- Ezekiel 23:40 Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.
The Jews: Cast, on the Ground in Humiliation
- 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!’
The Jews: Not to Make Baldness Between
- Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
The Jews: Raised Up, in Prayer
- Psalm 121:1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- Psalm 123:1 I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
The Jews: Wore Their Phylacteries Between
- Exodus 13:16 So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
- Matthew 23:5 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
The Light of the Body
- Matthew 6:22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
- 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.
The Light of, Rejoices the Heart
- Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.