evil eye (redirected fromAyin Hara) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia evil eye n. 1.A look or stare believed to cause injury or misfortune to others. 2.The presumed power to cause injury or misfortune to others by magic or supernatural means. ...
2.As I learned in my high school Talmud class, the medieval Rabbis decided to forbid these not-technically-forbidden grains because of a principle called marit ayin, which literally means “what it looks like.” 3.In the Hebrew language, the guttural letters ayin and chet often interchange, ...
it is generally rendered "sanctification", but it is noteworthy that it is the word chosen by the Greek translators of the Old Testament to render the Hebrew (rendered as Ayin-Zayin), which properly means strength or stability, a meaning which as we have seen is contained in the word holin...