Word Summary
autoptēs: an eyewitness
Original Word: αὐτόπτηςTransliteration: autoptēs
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-top'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an eyewitness
Meaning: an eyewitness
Strong's Concordance
eye-witness.
From autos and optanomai; self-seeing, i.e. An eye-witness -- eye-witness.
see GREEK autos
see GREEK optanomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 845: αὐτόπτηςαὐτόπτης,
ἀυτοπτου,
ὁ (
αὐτός,
ὈΠΤΩ),
seeing with one's own eyes, an eye-witness (cf.
ἀυτηκως one who has himself heard a thing):
Luke 1:2. (In Greek writings from
Herodotus down.)