Greek word study
ὀπτάνομαι G3700
- Transliteration
- optánomai
- KJV glosses
- appear, look, see, shew self
Lexical summary
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)
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
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 word’s possible definitions do not determine its meaning in every passage. Meaning is established by grammar, syntax, literary context, and usage.
Source: Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon. Data source information