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To see/experience

θεωρέωStrong’s G2334

theōreō

Appears in 56 verses of the New Testament

In short

Theōreō is the Greek word usually translated “see”, “seeing” and “beholding”. It appears in 56 verses of the New Testament.

“And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:”
Matthew 27:55 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “see”, “seeing” and “beholding”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • you see 6
  • seeing 5
  • beholding 5
  • to see 3
  • he beholds 3
  • you do behold 3
  • looking on 2
  • see 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • John 22
  • Acts 14
  • Mark 7
  • Luke 7
  • Matthew 2
  • Revelation 2

8 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 56 verses, by book
Matthew 2
27:5528:1
Hebrews 1
7:4
1 John 1
3:17
Revelation 2
11:1111:12
Greek dictionary

θεωρέω theōreō · to see/experience

θεωρέω, -ῶ (θεωρός, a spectator, θεάομαι) [in LXX chiefly for רָאָה, חָזָה ;] (present and imperfect only, exc. Jhn.7:3 (fut.), Mat.28:1, Luk.23:48, Jhn.8:51, Rev.11:12 (aor.); El., § 24); 1. (cl.), to look at, gaze, behold: absol., Mat.27:55, Mrk.15:40, Luk.23:35; before πῶς, Mrk.12:41; ποῦ, Mrk.15:47; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.6:40, 62 12:45 16:10-19, Act.3:16 20:38 25:24, Rev.11:11-12; id. with ptcp., Mrk.5:15, Luk.10:18, Jhn.6:19 10:12 20:12, 14, 1Jn.3:17; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.28:1, Luk.14:29 21:6 23:48, Jhn.2:23 6:2 7:3, Act.4:13 8:13; id. with ptcp., Jhn.20:6, Act.7: …

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.

  1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
  2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
  3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
  4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
All definitions and other forms of “see”
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. To discover; to descry; to understand.
  4. To converse or have intercourse with.
  5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend.
  6. To attend; to remark or notice.
  7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
  8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.“I turned to see the voice that spoke with me” Revelation 1:12
  9. 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
  10. To know; to learn.“Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren” Genesis 37:14
  11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend.
  12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.“I see another law in my members” Romans 7:23
  13. To beware.“See thou do it not. 9” Revelation 19:10
  14. To know by revelation.“The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” Isaiah 2:1
  15. To have faith in and reliance on.“Seeing him who is invisible” Hebrews 11:27
  16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8

SEE, verb intransitive

  1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight.
  2. 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.
  3. To eximane or inquere.
  4. To be attentive.
  5. 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.