Deuteronomy 32:10

him: i.e. Jacob. Emphasis on "him" marked by Figure of speech Epistrophe ( App-6 ), by which each clause ends with the same word. Here (in Hebrew) "him". "In a desert land He found HIM, He instructed HIM, In the waste howling wilderness, about, He led HIM, As the apple of His eye He kept HIM. "

apple. First occurrence of Hebrew. babah, used of the small round dark pupil of the eye. Hebrew = hole, gate, or door of the eye. Compare Psalms 18:8 . See note on Zechariah 2:8 . Called "pupil" from Latin. pupilla = a little girl.