Visual recognition/ perceptiveness/ deep insight/ grasping at first
The ability to judge at first glance or the ability to judge the quality of something quickly as soon as one sees it. The ability to deepen one's understanding and comprehension through life experience (source: Impression through the mirror of the eyes).
("And Rabbi Yochanan said: Which wise disciple would return to him a loss in the nature of the eye?" - Shabat Kidd a.a., and so: "The cutting of their faces (Isaiah 39), and Yosef was known (in the beginning of 24:8), and all their likenesses, all speak of the nature of the eye in clear signs" - Shekel Tov (Buber) in the beginning of the chapter, not Shabat Kidd a.a., And so: "And my brother swore that if they had come to him...at midnight and brought this policeman before him, he would have known him by the first impression of his eye!" - Peace be upon you/ Seventy-five thousand, grandfather, and so: "And to his praise we say that between it and the impression of his eye was given to him, to catch every subtle flaw that was in the people of his chastity" - Bialik/ Aryeh Baal Guf, 5, 22, and so on: "Rabbi Pinchas said, 'He who has no eye-marks in his faces, they are strange and strange in his eyes'" - Y. Burla/ Kisuphim, 21)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
טְבִיעַת עַיִן
Definition (Hebrew)
יְכֹולֶת הַבְחָנָה בְּמַבָּט רִאשׁוֹן אוֹ יְכֹולֶת לַעֲמֹוד עַל טִיבוֹ שֶׁל דָּבָר בְּאֹפֶן מָהִיר מִיָּד כְּשֶׁרוֹאִים אוֹתוֹ. חוּשׁ לְהַעֲמִיק בְּהִתְבּוֹנְנוּת וּבַהֲבָנָה עַל פִּי נִסְיוֹן הַחַיִּים (בַּמָּקוֹר: הִתְרַשְּׁמוּת עַל פִּי מַרְאֵה הָעֵינַיִם).
("וְאָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן: אֵיזֶהוּ תַּלְמִיד חָכָם שֶׁמַּחְזִירִין לוֹ אֲבֵדָה בִּטְבִיעוּת הָעַיִן"- שַׁבָּת קיד ע"א, וְכֵן:"הַכָּרַת פְּנֵיהֶם (יְשַׁעְיָה ג ט), וְיֻכַּר יוֹסֵף (בְּרֵאשִׁית מב ח), וְכָל דּוֹמֵיהֶן, כֻּלָּן מְדֻבָּרִים עַל טְבִיעַת הָעַיִן בְּסִימָנִים מֻבְהָקִים"- שֶׁכָּל טוֹב (בּוּבֶּר) בְּרֵאשִׁית פֶּרֶק לֹא שַׁבָּת קיד ע"א, וְכֵן:"וְאָחִי נִשְׁבַּע כִּי אִלּוּ בָּאוּ אֵלָיו...בַּחֲצוֹת הַלַּיְלָה וְהִגִּישׁוּ לְפָנָיו אֶת הַשְּׁטָר הַזֶּה,מִיָּד הָיָה מַכִּירוֹ בִּטְבִיעוֹת עַיִן רִאשׁוֹנָה!"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ חֲמִשָּׁה וְשִׁבְעִים אֶלֶף, סָב, וְכֵן:"וּלְשִׁבְחוֹ נַגִּיד שֶׁבֵּינָהּ יְתֵרָה וּטְבִיעַת עַיִן נָתְנָה בּוֹ, לִתְפֹּס כָּל פְּגִימָה דַּקָּה שֶׁבְּאַנְשֵׁי חֶרְמוֹ"- בְּיָאלִיק/ אַרְיֵה בַּעַל גּוּף, ה, כב, וְכֵן:"אָמַר ר' פִּנְחָס, שֶׁאֵין לוֹ טְבִיעַת עַיִן בְּפַרְצוּפִים אֵלּוּ,זָרִים וּמְשֻׁנִּים הֵם בְּעֵינָיו"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים, 21)