G3700 · ὀπτάνομαι
optánomai · see, being seen
G3700 (optánomai) is the Greek word ὀπτάνομαι in Strong’s dictionary: which is used for it in certain tenses. It appears 1 time in 1 verse of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- ὀπτάνομαι (Greek)
- Transliteration
- optánomai
- Derivation
- 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);
- Definition
- 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)
- Rendered in the KJV
- appear, look, see, shew self
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
1 occurrence in 1 verse.
How the BSB renders it
- “He appeared” ×1
By book
Acts 1
Verses
Related words
Numbers that share a root with G3700.