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θεάομαιStrong’s G2300theaomai
Appears in 23 verses of the New Testament
In short
Theaomai is the Greek word usually translated “having seen”, “see” and “seen”. It appears in 23 verses of the New Testament.
“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.”
Meaning
Usually translated “having seen”, “see” and “seen”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having seen 5
- to see 4
- to be seen 2
- he has been seen 1
- he saw 1
- saw 1
- we beheld 1
- i have beheld 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 7
- Matthew 4
- Luke 3
- Acts 3
- 1 John 3
- Mark 2
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 11:7And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
- Matthew 22:11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
- Matthew 23:5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
- Mark 16:11And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
- Mark 16:14Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
- Luke 5:27And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
Greek dictionary
θεάομαι theaomai · to look at
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. …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “see” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEE, noun.
- The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
- The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
- The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
All definitions and other forms of “see”
- To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.“I will now turn aside and see this great sight” Exodus 3:3“We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good” Judges 18:9
- To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to“See that ye fall not out by the way” Genesis 45:24
- To discover; to descry; to understand.
- To converse or have intercourse with.
- To visit; as, to call and see a friend.
- To attend; to remark or notice.
- To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
- In Scripture, to hear or attend to.“I turned to see the voice that spoke with me” Revelation 1:12
- To feel; to suffer; to experience.“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil” Psalms 90:15“If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death” John 8:51
- To know; to learn.“Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren” Genesis 37:14
- To perceive; to understand; to comprehend.
- To perceive; to understand experimentally.“I see another law in my members” Romans 7:23
- To beware.“See thou do it not. 9” Revelation 19:10
- To know by revelation.“The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” Isaiah 2:1
- To have faith in and reliance on.“Seeing him who is invisible” Hebrews 11:27
- To enjoy; to have fruition of.“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8
SEE, verb intransitive
- To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight.
- To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
- To eximane or inquere.
- To be attentive.
- To have full understanding.“But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth” John 9:41
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.