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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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 will see God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:3 - Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth[fn] will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:64 - “You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:4 - “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:24 - When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:7 - Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:10 - Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:4 - And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:26 - “At that time people 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 - “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:7 - But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:6 - And all people will see God’s salvation.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:31 - They spoke about his departure,[fn] which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:28 - “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:22 - Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:27 - At that time 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 and strengthened him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 24:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:34 - and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:50 - Jesus said, “You believe[fn] because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:51 - He then added, “Very truly I tell you,[fn] you[fn] will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on’[fn] the Son of Man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:40 - Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:16 - Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:17 - At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:19 - Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:22 - So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:37 - and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:3 - After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:3 - They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:17 - “ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and 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 - To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:26 - The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:35 - “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:17 - Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:31 - and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:9 - During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15 - But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law—settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:25 - “Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16 - ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:21 - Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:5 - and that he appeared to Cephas,[fn] and then to the Twelve.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:6 - After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:8 - and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:16 - Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit,[fn] was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:28 - so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:14 - Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

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