ὀφθαλμοδουλεία
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A eye-service, Ep.Eph.6.6: in pl., Ep.Col.3.22.
German (Pape)
[Seite 425] ἡ, Augendienerei, N. T.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὀφθαλμοδουλεία: ἡ, μὴ κατ’ ὀφθαλμοδουλείαν ὡς ἀνθρωπάρεσκοι, «τουτέστι, μὴ μόνον ὅταν πάρεισιν οἱ δεσπόται καὶ ὁρῶσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπόντων αὐτῶν» Οἰκουμένιος, εἰς Ἐπιστ. πρὸς Ἐφεσ. Ϛ΄, 6· ἐν τῷ πληθυντ., πρὸς Κολοσσ. γ΄, 22 (γράφεται καὶ ὀφθαλμοδουλία TWH).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
action de servir (au doigt et) à l’œil.
Étymologie: ὀφθαλμός, δοῦλος.
English (Strong)
from ὀφθαλμός and δουλεία; sight-labor, i.e. that needs watching (remissness): eye-service.
English (Thayer)
(T WH ὀφθαλμοδουλία; see Iota), ὀφθαλμοδουλειας, ἡ (ὀφθαλμοδουλος, Apostolic Constitutions (4,12, Coteler. Patr. Apost.) 1, p. 299a; and this from ὀφθαλμός and δοῦλος) (A. V. eye-service i. e.) service performed (only) under the master's eye (μή κατ' ὀφθαλμοδουλίαν, τουτεστι μή μόνον παρόντων τῶν δεσποτῶν καί ὁρώντων, ἀλλά καί ἀποντων, Theophylact on Stephanus): Winer's Grammar, 100 (94)).
