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GreekG3708Verb

ὁράω

horaō

58Occurrences
G3708Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear

properly, to stare at (compare G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι)), i.e. (by implication) to discern clearly (physically or mentally);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
in "durative" sense (hence aor. act., εἶδον, pass., ὤφθην, fut., ὄψομαι, from different roots; see M, Pr., 110f.), to see (in colloq. even the present is rare, its place being generally taken by θεωρέω, see BL, §24).
1.Of bodily vision, to see, perceive, behold
2.to see with the mind, perceive, discern
3.to see, take heed, beware
4.to experience
5.to visit
6.to see to, care for
Synonyms
see: βλέπω.
LXX: chiefly for ראה, also for חזה, etc.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

G:V

Full Description

Greek Verb

Occurrences

ὁράω appears 58 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

John
21
Luke
6
Matthew
6
1 John
5
Acts
4
Hebrews
4
Mark
3
Colossians
2

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 9:1BSB

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?

Acts 7:44BSB

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

John 1:50BSB

Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”

John 3:32BSB

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Luke 23:49BSB

But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.