Eyelid

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Eyelid [1]

ı̄´lid : Eyes and eyelids in Hebrew are sometimes used synonymously, as in the parallelism of Proverbs 4:25 (compare Proverbs 6:4; Proverbs 30:13 ):

"Let thine eyes look right on,

And let thine eyelids look straight before thee."

(Compare Job 41:18; Psalm 11:4; Jeremiah 9:18 .) The alluring power of the wanton woman is conceived of as centered in her eyes ( Proverbs 6:25; Isaiah 3:16 ): "Neither let her take thee with her eyelids." Painting the eyelids was resorted to to intensify the beauty, antimony (which see) being used for darkening the lashes ( 2 Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40 ).

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