Note 299 — Chapter V · THE MOST PROMINENT FIGURES IN HEBREW MYTHOLOGY.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
‘Wimpern der Morgenröthe,’ and so Ewald translates aphʿappayim in Job, i.e. eyelashes, eyelids being ‘Augenlieder.’ Yet Gesenius understands the word as palpebrae, i.e. eyelids (though both this word and cilium are occasionally used indiscriminately in either sense). Βλέφαρον is only ‘eyelid;’ the Arabic ḥawâjib is only ‘eyelash.’—Tr.