You may want to relate it to BILAM's claim in Nu. 24:3-4
וישא משלו ויאמר נאם בלעם בנו בער ונאם הגבר שתם העין נאם שמע אמרי אל אשר מחזה שדי יחזה נפל וגלוי עינים
or, according to KJ
"And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open"
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On May 14, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:
I don't see the mystery here. מעונן M-ONEN has to do withseeingin the future. It has anayinand anun.So it must be related to עין (ayin, eye. How hard is that?(ayinwords are common in other language groups. Swahili, for example, hasona, see.