Strongs Number: G3700
- Greek Word
- ὀπτάνομαι
- Transliteration
- optanomai optomai
- Phonetic
- op-tan'-om-ahee op'-tom-ahee
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Strongs Definition
-
and both as alternates of G3708; to gaze (that is with wide open eyes as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991 which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492 which expresses merely mechanical passive or casual vision; while G2300 and still more emphatically its intensive G2334 signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 a watching from a distance)
- Thayers Definition
-
1. to look at, behold
2. to allow one's self to be seen, to appear
- Origin
- The first a (middle voice) prolonged form of the second (primary) which is used for it in certain tenses
- Bible Usage
- appear look see shew self.