"eye for an eye" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Calque of Hebrew עין תחת עין (ayin tahat ayin), in reference to Exodus 21:23-25: \"And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe\" (King James Version; spelling modernized).",
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        "Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person."
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          "compensation#English"
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          "injury",
          "injury"
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          "inflict",
          "inflict"
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        "(idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
        },
        {
          "word": "fight fire with fire"
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        {
          "word": "internecine"
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        {
          "word": "lex talionis"
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          "word": "mirror punishment"
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        {
          "word": "mutual assured destruction"
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        {
          "word": "race to the bottom"
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          "word": "two wrongs don't make a right"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "a Roland for an Oliver"
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        {
          "word": "tit for tat"
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          "lang": "Amharic",
          "roman": "ʿayn səlä ʿayn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ዓይን ስለ ዓይን"
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        {
          "code": "am",
          "lang": "Amharic",
          "roman": "ʾäyn səlä ʾäyn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "አይን ስለ አይን"
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          "code": "am",
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          "roman": "ʾäyn śəlä ʾäyn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "አይን ሥለ አይን"
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          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ዓይን ሥለ ዓይን"
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "al-ʕaynu bi-l-ʕayn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "الْعَيْنُ بِالْعَيْن"
        },
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          "code": "syc",
          "lang": "Aramaic",
          "roman": "ʿaynā ḥlāp̄ ʿaynā",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ܥܲܝܢܵܐ ܚܠܵܦ݂ ܥܲܝܢܵܐ"
        },
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "akn ənd akan",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ակն ընդ ական"
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          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "gözə göz, dişə diş"
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          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "vóka za vóka, zub za zub",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "во́ка за во́ка, зуб за зуб"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
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          "roman": "vóka za vóka",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "во́ка за во́ка"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "óko za óko, zǎb za zǎb",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зъб за зъб"
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          "roman": "óko za óko",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
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          "code": "ca",
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          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ull per ull, dent per dent"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "以眼還眼"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǐ yǎn huán yǎn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "以眼还眼"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "以牙還牙"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǐ yá huán yá",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "以牙还牙"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "øje for øje"
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          "code": "nl",
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          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oog om oog, tand om tand"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "okulon pro okulo, denton pro dento"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "silm silma vastu"
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          "code": "fo",
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          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "eyga fyri eyga"
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        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "eyga fyri eyga, tonn fyri tonn"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "silmä silmästä"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "œil pour œil"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "ollo por ollo"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "tvali tvalistvis",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "თვალი თვალისთვის"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "Auge um Auge"
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ophthalmòn antì ophthalmoû odónta antì odóntos",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος"
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "'áyin táḥat 'áyin",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן"
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        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "xūn kā badlā xūn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ख़ून का बदला ख़ून"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "szemet szemért"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "occhio per occhio"
        },
        {
          "alt": "めにはめを",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "me ni wa me o",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "目には目を"
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        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "nuneneun nun",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "눈에는 눈"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "oko za oko, zab za zab",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "око за око, заб за заб"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "oko za oko",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "око за око"
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          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "għajn għal għajn, sinna għal sinna"
        },
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          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "għajn għal għajn"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "øye for øye, tann for tann"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "auga for auga, tann for tann"
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          "code": "cu",
          "lang": "Church Slavic",
          "roman": "oko za oko, zǫbŭ za zǫbŭ",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "око за око, зѫбъ за зѫбъ"
        },
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          "lang": "Church Slavic",
          "roman": "oko za oko, zǫbŭ za zǫbŭ",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "Glagolitic"
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          "word": "ⱁⰽⱁ ⰸⰰ ⱁⰽⱁ, ⰸⱘⰱⱏ ⰸⰰ ⰸⱘⰱⱏ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ēaġe for ēaġe"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko, ząb za ząb"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "olho por olho"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "óko za óko, zub za zub",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зуб за зуб"
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          "roman": "óko za óko",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
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          "roman": "glaz za glaz",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "глаз за глаз"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ìghne airson ìghne"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "sùil airson sùla is fiacaill airson fiacla"
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "око за око, зуб за зуб"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "око за око"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
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            "Roman"
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          "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "oko za oko"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko, zob za zob"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "oko za oko"
        },
        {
          "code": "dsb",
          "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "woko za woko"
        },
        {
          "code": "hsb",
          "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "woko za woko"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "ojo por ojo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "jicho kwa jicho"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "öga för öga"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "mata sa mata"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "kaṇṭiki kannu, paṇṭiki pannu",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "కంటికి కన్ను, పంటికి పన్ను"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "óko za óko, zub za zub",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зуб за зуб"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "óko za óko",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "xūn kā badlā xūn",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "خون کا بدلہ خون"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "mắt đền mắt, răng đền răng"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "compensation for an injury",
          "word": "mắt đền mắt"
        }
      ],
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        "eye for an eye"
      ]
    }
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      "word": "turn the other cheek"
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  "etymology_text": "Calque of Hebrew עין תחת עין (ayin tahat ayin), in reference to Exodus 21:23-25: \"And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe\" (King James Version; spelling modernized).",
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      "word": "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
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    {
      "word": "fight fire with fire"
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    {
      "word": "internecine"
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    {
      "word": "lex talionis"
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    {
      "word": "mirror punishment"
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    {
      "word": "mutual assured destruction"
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    {
      "word": "race to the bottom"
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    {
      "word": "two wrongs don't make a right"
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        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Classical Syriac translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Faroese translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Lower Sorbian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Maltese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations",
        "Terms with Old English translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Telugu translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Upper Sorbian translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes"
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        "Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person."
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        "eye for an eye"
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    {
      "word": "a Roland for an Oliver"
    },
    {
      "word": "tit for tat"
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      "code": "am",
      "lang": "Amharic",
      "roman": "ʿayn səlä ʿayn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ዓይን ስለ ዓይን"
    },
    {
      "code": "am",
      "lang": "Amharic",
      "roman": "ʾäyn səlä ʾäyn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "አይን ስለ አይን"
    },
    {
      "code": "am",
      "lang": "Amharic",
      "roman": "ʾäyn śəlä ʾäyn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "አይን ሥለ አይን"
    },
    {
      "code": "am",
      "lang": "Amharic",
      "roman": "ʿayn śəlä ʿayn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ዓይን ሥለ ዓይን"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-ʕaynu bi-l-ʕayn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "الْعَيْنُ بِالْعَيْن"
    },
    {
      "code": "syc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "roman": "ʿaynā ḥlāp̄ ʿaynā",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ܥܲܝܢܵܐ ܚܠܵܦ݂ ܥܲܝܢܵܐ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "akn ənd akan",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ակն ընդ ական"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "gözə göz, dişə diş"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vóka za vóka, zub za zub",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "во́ка за во́ка, зуб за зуб"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vóka za vóka",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "во́ка за во́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "óko za óko, zǎb za zǎb",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зъб за зъб"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "óko za óko",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ull per ull, dent per dent"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "以眼還眼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǐ yǎn huán yǎn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "以眼还眼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "以牙還牙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǐ yá huán yá",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "以牙还牙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "øje for øje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oog om oog, tand om tand"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "okulon pro okulo, denton pro dento"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "silm silma vastu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "eyga fyri eyga"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "eyga fyri eyga, tonn fyri tonn"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "silmä silmästä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "œil pour œil"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ollo por ollo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tvali tvalistvis",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "თვალი თვალისთვის"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "Auge um Auge"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ophthalmòn antì ophthalmoû odónta antì odóntos",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "'áyin táḥat 'áyin",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "xūn kā badlā xūn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ख़ून का बदला ख़ून"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "szemet szemért"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "occhio per occhio"
    },
    {
      "alt": "めにはめを",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "me ni wa me o",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "目には目を"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nuneneun nun",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "눈에는 눈"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "oko za oko, zab za zab",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "око за око, заб за заб"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "oko za oko",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "око за око"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "għajn għal għajn, sinna għal sinna"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "għajn għal għajn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "øye for øye, tann for tann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "auga for auga, tann for tann"
    },
    {
      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Church Slavic",
      "roman": "oko za oko, zǫbŭ za zǫbŭ",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "око за око, зѫбъ за зѫбъ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Church Slavic",
      "roman": "oko za oko, zǫbŭ za zǫbŭ",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Glagolitic"
      ],
      "word": "ⱁⰽⱁ ⰸⰰ ⱁⰽⱁ, ⰸⱘⰱⱏ ⰸⰰ ⰸⱘⰱⱏ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ēaġe for ēaġe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko, ząb za ząb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "olho por olho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "óko za óko, zub za zub",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зуб за зуб"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "óko za óko",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "glaz za glaz",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "глаз за глаз"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ìghne airson ìghne"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "sùil airson sùla is fiacaill airson fiacla"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "око за око, зуб за зуб"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "око за око"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "oko za oko"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko, zub za zub"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko, zob za zob"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "oko za oko"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "woko za woko"
    },
    {
      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "woko za woko"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "ojo por ojo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "jicho kwa jicho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "öga för öga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "mata sa mata"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "kaṇṭiki kannu, paṇṭiki pannu",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "కంటికి కన్ను, పంటికి పన్ను"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "óko za óko, zub za zub",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко, зуб за зуб"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "óko za óko",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "о́ко за о́ко"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "xūn kā badlā xūn",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "خون کا بدلہ خون"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "mắt đền mắt, răng đền răng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "compensation for an injury",
      "word": "mắt đền mắt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eye for an eye"
}