Greek · Strong’s G3700
ὀπτάνομαι
optánomai
to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991 (βλέπω), which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492 (εἴδω), which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while G2300 (θεάομαι), and still more emphatically its intensive G2334 (θεωρέω), signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 (σκοπέω) a watching from a distance)
a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) ; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of G3708 (ὁράω);
58
Times used
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Old Testament
58
New Testament
Verses
- Matthew 5:8
- Matthew 17:3
- Matthew 24:30
- Matthew 26:64
- Matthew 27:4
- Matthew 27:24
- Matthew 28:7
- Matthew 28:10
- Luke 1:11
- Luke 3:6
- Luke 9:31
- Luke 13:28
- Luke 17:22
- Luke 21:27
- Luke 22:43
- Luke 24:34
- John 1:50
- John 1:51
- John 3:36
- John 11:40
- John 16:16
- John 16:17
- John 16:19
- John 16:22
- John 19:37
- Romans 15:21
- 1 Timothy 3:16
- Hebrews 9:28
- Hebrews 12:14
- Hebrews 13:23
- 1 John 3:2
- Revelation 1:7
- Revelation 11:19
- Revelation 12:1
- Revelation 12:3
- Revelation 22:4
Words derived from it
- G3788ὀφθαλμός ophthalmósthe eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance)
- G1799ἐνώπιον enṓpionin the face of (literally or figuratively)
- G4383πρόσωπον prósōponthe front (as being towards view), i.e. the countenance, aspect, appearance, surface; by implication, presence, person
- G3708ὁράω horáōby extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear
- G3789ὄφις óphisa snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan
- G3701ὀπτασία optasíavisuality, i.e. (concretely) an apparition
- G3799ὄψις ópsisproperly, sight (the act), i.e. (by implication) the visage, an external show
- G128Αἰθίοψ Aithíopsan Æthiopian (as a blackamoor)
- G4659σκυθρωπός skythrōpósangry-visaged, i.e. gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance
- G2029ἐποπτεύω epopteúōto inspect, i.e. watch
- G2072ἔσοπτρον ésoptrona mirror (for looking into)
- G5299ὑπωπιάζω hypōpiázōto hit under the eye (buffet or disable an antagonist as a pugilist), i.e. (figuratively) to tease or annoy (into compli
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Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain. Verse list from the Strong’s-tagged King James Version.