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Strong's Concordance G3700
ὀπτάνομαι
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Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Greek form
- ὀπτάνομαι
- Transliteration
- optanomai
- Pronunciation
- {op-tan'-om-ahee} 或 optomai {op-tom-ahee}
- Occurrences
- Occurrences are not reviewed for this entry yet.
- Glosses
- of the primary (middle voice) optomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of 3708 to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self.
- Related source reference
- see GREEK for 4648
- Strong’s number
- G3700
- Definition
- of the primary (middle voice) optomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of 3708 to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self.
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James Strong, Strong's Greek Bible Dictionary; CrossWire SWORD StrongsGreek module 2.0; historical public-domain lexicon wording preserved.
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<entryFree n="3700"> <orth>ὀπτάνομαι</orth><lb/> <orth type="writing">ojptavnomai</orth> <orth rend="bold" type="trans">optanomai</orth> <pron rend="italic">{op-tan'-om-ahee} 或 optomai {op-tom-ahee}</pron> <def> of the primary (middle voice) optomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of 3708 to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self. <lb/> see GREEK for 3708 <lb/> see GREEK for 991 <lb/> see GREEK for 1492 <lb/> see GREEK for 2300 <lb/> see GREEK for 2334 <lb/> see GREEK for 4648 </def> </entryFree>