to look at
Definition:
θεάομαι, -ῶμαι [in LXX; 2Ch.22:6 (רָאָה), Tob.2:2 13:6, 14, Jdth.15:8, 2Ma.2:4 2Mac 3:36, 3Ma.5:47 *;] to behold, look upon, contemplate, view (in early writers with a sense of wondering), in NT apparently always in literal, physical sense of "careful and deliberate vision which interprets. its object": with accusative of thing(s), Mat.11:7, Luk.7:24 23:55, Jhn.1:14, 32 4:35 11:45, Act.22:9, 1Jn.1:1; with accusative of person(s), Mat.22:11, Act.21:27, Rom.15:24, 1Jn.4:12; with ptcp, Mrk.16:14, Luk.5:27, Jhn.1:38, Act.1:11; before ὅτι, Jhn.6:5, 1Jn.4:14; pass, Mat.6:1 23:5, Mrk.16:11. SYN.: see: θεωρέω (AS)
Definition:
θεάομαι,
Epic dialect and
Ionic dialect θηέομαι (see. below),
Doric dialect θᾱέομαι,
Θάομαι (which see),
imperative θεῶ [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
optative θηοῖο (for
Attic dialect θεῷο) [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
participle θηεύμενος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
imperfect ἐθηεῖτο, ἐθηεῦντο, [
Refs];
Epic dialect θηεῖτο [
Refs 8th c.BC+] poetical cited in [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
future θεάσομαι [ᾱ],
Ionic dialect -ήσομαι:
aorist ἐθεᾱσάμην,
Epic dialect optative θηήσαιο, θηήσαιτο, [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
3rd.pers. plural ἐθηήσαντο [
Refs 3rd c.BC+];
Ionic dialect infinitive θεήσασθαι (variant{θεάσ-}) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
Attic dialect perfect τεθέαμαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+] is found in θησαίατ᾽ [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:—
gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of
wonder, θηεῦντο μέγα ἔργον [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐθεᾶτο. τὴν θέσιν τῆς πόλεως, ὡς ἔχοι
reconnoitred it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
do you see? [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
2) of the mind,
contemplate, τὸ ἀληθές [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2.b)
see clearly, ἵν᾽ ἴδητε καὶ θεάσησθε ὅτι. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3)
view as spectators, especially in the theatre, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ θεώμενοι
the spectators, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also,
onlookers, bystanders, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
to be spectators of the war, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4) θ. τὸ στράτευμα
to review it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II)
active θεάω, late, Baillet
Tombeaux des rois à Thèbes [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
aorist ἐθεάθην in
passive sense, Ps. -Callisth.[
NT+1st c.AD+]:
present θεῶνται [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
Pronounciation:
theh-ah'-om-ahee
Definition:
to look closely at, i.e. (by implication) perceive (literally or figuratively); by extension to visit; behold, look (upon), see; a prolonged form of a primary verb;