🇬🇷 Greek · Strong's G3700
G3700

ὀπτάνομαι

optánomai [op-tan'-om-ahee] Verb
Core meaningto appear

Lexical Definition

Strong's Greek G3700

to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from , which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from , which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while , and still more emphatically its intensive , signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and a watching from a distance)

KJV usage: :--appear, look, see, shew self.
Etymology: a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) ; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon

to be seen, appear, Acts 1:3*

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