ὀφθαλμοί (ophthalmoi)

ὀφθαλμοί is an Ancient Greek form of ὀφθαλμός, meaning “eye”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.53: … Πυγμαῖος. καὶ τὸ κέντρον δὲ τῆς γῆς κατʼ ἀναλογίαν ἐνοήθη ἀπὸ τῶν μικροτέρων σφαιρῶν. κατὰ μετάθεσιν δέ, οἷον ὀφθαλμοὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ στήθους· κατὰ σύνθεσιν δὲ ἐνοήθη Ἱπποκένταυρος· καὶ κατʼ ἐναντίωσιν θάνατος. νοεῖται δὲ καὶ κατὰ μετά …

New Testament, Matthew 9.30: καὶ ἠνεῴχθησαν αὐτῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί. Καὶ ἐνεβριμήθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγων Ὁρᾶτε μηδεὶς γινωσκέτω·

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 150·2: … νότι, εἴπερ οὖν ἄξιος καὶ ὁ ἐμὸς βίος ὑπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐποπτεύεσθαι· ἀνέγνων γάρ που ἐν Ψαλμοῖς, ὅτι Ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ἐπὶ δικαίους. ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ εὔχομαι καὶ σοὶ καὶ παντὶ τῷ παραπλησίως σοι προαιρουμένῳ καὶ τῷ σώματι συνε …

All forms of ὀφθαλμός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.