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ı̄´lid: Eyes and eyelids in Hebrew are sometimes used synonymously, as in the parallelism of (compare ; ):
“Let thine eyes look right on,
And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.â€
(Compare ; ; .) The alluring power of the wanton woman is conceived of as centered in her eyes (; ): “Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.†Painting the eyelids was resorted to to intensify the beauty, antimony (which see) being used for darkening the lashes (; ; ).