King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3700
Transliteration: optanomai
Phonetic Spelling: (op-tan'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to appear
Meaning: to appear
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).)
Word Summary
optanomai: to appear
Original Word: ὀπτάνομαιTransliteration: optanomai
Phonetic Spelling: (op-tan'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to appear
Meaning: to appear
Strong's Concordance
appear, look, seeA (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 horao; to gaze (i.e. With wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from blepo, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from eido, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while theaomai, and still more emphatically its intensive theoreo, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and skopeo a watching from a distance) -- appear, look, see, shew self.
see GREEK horao
see GREEK blepo
see GREEK eido
see GREEK theaomai
see GREEK theoreo
see GREEK skopeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3700: ὀπτάνωὀπτάνω (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).)