aph.aph denotes eyelids, especially in descriptions of sight, wakefulness, and the direction or lifting of the eyes.

The term denotes eyelids in bodily descriptions, particularly alongside eyes and in statements about sleep, gaze, and lifted appearance. It also occurs in poetic clauses that attribute eyelids to dawn or describe the LORD's seeing and testing.

1. Eyelids in bodily sight and wakefulness · dominant

   The construct forms occur with eyes in clauses concerning physical appearance, attention, and sleep. In Proverbs 4:25 the APB renders eyes looking straight ahead and eyelids directed forward; in Proverbs 6:4 and Psalm 132:4 it renders the refusal to give sleep to the eyes or slumber to the eyelids. Proverbs 30:13 likewise places the eyelids in a description of a generation whose eyes are haughty and whose eyelids are lifted.

   Job 16:16Proverbs 30:13Proverbs 4:25Proverbs 6:25Proverbs 6:4Psalm 132:4
2. Eyelids in poetic attribution · occasional

   In Job 3:9 the plural construct form belongs to the phrase that the APB renders “the eyelids of dawn,” within a wish that dawn not see. In Psalm 11:4 the dual construct form occurs in the clause the APB renders “his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.”

   Job 3:9Psalm 11:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly makes the term explicit as “eyelids,” especially in clauses about darkness, sleep, lifted looks, and directed sight. In Jeremiah 9:17 and Job 41:10, the supplied translation does not clearly isolate the term's contribution, so those verses do not establish a separate English rendering.