Word Summary
epiblepō: to look on (with favor)
Original Word: ἐπιβλέπωTransliteration: epiblepō
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-blep'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to look on (with favor)
Meaning: to look on (with favor)
Strong's Concordance
look upon, regard, have respect for.
From epi and blepo; to gaze at (with favor, pity or partiality) -- look upon, regard, have respect to.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK blepo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1914: ἐπιβλέπωἐπιβλέπω: 1 aorist
ἐπέβλεψα; in the
Sept. often for
הִבִּיט and
פָּנָה, also for
רָאָה;
to turn the eyes upon, to look upon, gaze upon (
ἐπί upon (cf.
ἐπί, D. 2)):
ἐπί τινα, contextually, to look upon one with a feeling of admiration and respect,
to look up to, regard, James 2:3; contextually, to look upon in pity for the sake of giving aid, equivalent to
to have regard for, to regard, Luke 9:38 (where for
ἐπίβλεψον (
RL) and
ἐπιβλέψαι (
G T) write (with
Tr WH ἐπιβλέψαι, 1 aorist active infinitive; cf. Bornemann, Schol. ad loc, and above in
δέομαι, 3 a. (also
Buttmann, 273 (234) note));
ἐπί τήν ταπείνωσιν τίνος,
Luke 1:48; often in the O. T. in the same sense, as
1 Samuel 1:11;
1 Samuel 9:16;
Psalm 24:16 (); Psalm 68:17 (); Tobit 3:3, etc. (In Greek writings from Sophocles and Plato down, both literally and figuratively.)