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1Sa 4:15 King James Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Dim - Rather, "set." The word is quite different from that so rendered in Sa1 3:2. The phrase seems to express the "fixed" state of the blind eye, which is not affected by the light. Eli's blindness, while it made him alive to sounds, prevented his seeing the ripped garments and dust-besprinkled head of the messenger of bad news.
 
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2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.