H8265 H8265
ogle, glance provocatively, cast flirtatious looks
This Piel verb describes the provocative eye movements of women seeking to attract attention through seductive glances. Isaiah uses it in his indictment of Jerusalem's wealthy women who walk with 'ogling eyes'—part of their overall haughty, attention-seeking behavior. The root suggests deliberate eye movement calculated to entice or seduce, distinct from modest gaze. Cognate languages support the sense of looking about in a calculating or flirtatious manner. The term captures not just seeing but the deliberate use of eye contact as a social and sexual signal.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Isaiah 3:16 condemns the daughters of Zion for 'walking and ogling with their eyes,' part of a larger rebuke of their pride and seductive behavior. Spanish captures the sense with 'seducing with,' while French and German leave it untranslated, perhaps due to its unusual nature. The ogling represents calculated sensuality—using eye movement as a tool of enticement, part of the social display that Isaiah declares will be judged by humiliation. 1×
AR["وَ-يُغَازِلنَ"]·ben["ও-চোখ-মারানো"]·DE["[ומשקרות]"]·EN["walking"]·FR["[ומשקרות]"]·heb["ו-משקרות"]·HI["और-नज़रें-मिचकाती"]·ID["dan-bermain-mata"]·IT["[ומשקרות]"]·jav["lan-nglirik-lirik"]·KO["눈짓하는"]·PT["e-seduzindo-com"]·RU["и-обольщающими"]·ES["y-seduciendo-con"]·SW["na-kutupa-macho"]·TR["ve-isve-yapan"]·urd["اور-نخرے-سے"]
Related Senses
H7200 1. Qal: to see, perceive (1257×)G4771 2. you (singular address) (1077×)H8085 1. Qal: hear, perceive aurally (921×)H0859a 1. you (2nd person masculine singular pronoun) (743×)H0398 1. eat (consume food) (697×)H4191 1. die (Qal: natural/general death) (645×)G3708 1. see, perceive visually (419×)G0191 1. hear, perceive sound (360×)H???? 3. (352×)G3708 2. behold, look (exclamatory) (256×)H7272 1. foot (body part) (236×)H8354 1. drink, consume liquid (209×)H3205 1. Qal active: bear/give birth (female subject) (204×)H3205 2. Qal active: beget/father (male subject) (198×)H2421 1. Qal: live, be alive (177×)H8085 2. Qal: listen, heed, pay attention (172×)H2416a 1. alive, living (state/attribute) (146×)H2416e 1. life, lifespan, lifetime (145×)G2198 1. be alive, have life (133×)H8193 1. lip, lips (body part) (123×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שָׂקַר] vb. Pi. ogle (Aramaic סְקַר look at (𝔗 Jb 20:9; 28:7), סַקְרָנִית looking about, ogling; ܣܩܰܪ eye with envy or hatred (e.g. 1 S 18:9 𝔖); cf. De Is);—Pt. fpl. מְשַׂקְּרוֹת עֵינַיִם Is 3:16 ogling of eyes (women of Jerusalem).