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Lexicon :: Strong's G3700 - optanomai

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ὀπτάνομαι
Transliteration
optanomai (Key)
Pronunciation
op-tan'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) optomai {op'-tom-ahee}, which is used for it in certain tenses, and both as alternate of ὁράω (G3708)
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TDNT Reference: 5:315,706

Strong’s Definitions

ὀπτάνομαι optánomai, op-tan'-om-ahee; a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) ὄπτομαι óptomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of G3708; to gaze (i.e. 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):—appear, look, see, shew self.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's G3700 in the following manner: see (37x), appear (17x), look (2x), show (one's) self (1x), being seen (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's G3700 in the following manner: see (37x), appear (17x), look (2x), show (one's) self (1x), being seen (1x).

  1. to look at, behold

  2. to allow one's self to be seen, to appear

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὀπτάνομαι optánomai, op-tan'-om-ahee; a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) ὄπτομαι óptomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of G3708; to gaze (i.e. 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):—appear, look, see, shew self.
STRONGS G3700:
ὀπτάνω (ὈΠΤΩ): to look at, behold; middle present participle ὀπτανόμενος; to allow oneself to be seen, to appear: τίνι, Acts 1:3. (1 Kings 8:8; Tobit 12:19; (Graecus Venetus, Exodus 34:24).)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
34:24
1 Kings
8:8
Acts
1:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3700 matches the Greek ὀπτάνομαι (optanomai),
which occurs 58 times in 57 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 5:8–Heb 12:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:3 - Behold, Moshe and Eliyah appeared to them talking with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the eretz will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:64 - Yeshua said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, henceforth you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:4 - saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:24 - So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7 - Go quickly and tell his talmidim, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into the Galil; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:10 - Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into the Galil, and there they will see me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:4 - Eliyah and Moshe appeared to them, and they were talking with Yeshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:26 - Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:62

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:62 - Yeshua said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:7 - But go, tell his talmidim and Rock, 'He goes before you into the Galil. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:11 - An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:6 - All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:31 - who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:28 - There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya`akov, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:22 - He said to the talmidim, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:27 - Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:43 - An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 24:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:34 - saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Shim`on!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:50 - Yeshua answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:51 - He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:40 - Yeshua said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:16 - A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:17 - Some of his talmidim therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:19 - Therefore Yeshua perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:22 - Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:37 - Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:3 - To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:3 - Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:17 - 'It will be in the last days, says God, That I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:2 - He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Avraham, when he was in Aram-Naharayim, before he lived in Haran,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:26 - "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at shalom again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:35 - "This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' -- God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:17 - Hananyah departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Sha'ul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:31 - and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim, who are his witnesses to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:9 - A vision appeared to Sha'ul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15 - but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:25 - Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16 - But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:21 - But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:5 - and that he appeared to Kefa, then to the twelve.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:6 - Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:7 - Then he appeared to Ya`akov, then to all the apostles,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:8 - and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:16 - Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, And received up in glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:28 - so Messiah also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:14 - Follow after shalom with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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