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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 14 times in 13 verses in 'Act' in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:3 - to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:3 - Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:17 - ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:2 - And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:26 - “And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord[fn] appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:35 - “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’[fn] is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:17 - And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus,[fn] who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:31 - “He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:9 - And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15 - “But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:25 - “And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16 - ‘But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.
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