ἐμβλέπω
to look at
‘to look at’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 6 times (55%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1689 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 6:26 ἐμβλέψατε aor act impv 2pl See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
- Matthew 19:26 ἐμβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 8:25 ἐνέβλεπεν impf act ind 3sg Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
- Mark 10:21 ἐμβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
- Mark 10:27 ἐμβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
- Mark 14:67 ἐμβλέψασα aor act ptcp nom sg fem and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 20:17 ἐμβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
- Luke 22:61 ἐνέβλεψεν aor act ind 3sg The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."
John 2 verses
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to look at” is the headline sense of the Greek verb εμβλεπω (emblépō). First canonically at Matthew 6:26, it enters the text early. It turns up in 11 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Mark, which alone accounts for 36% of its uses. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1689 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 91%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 27%
- Johannine 2 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Beheld 2×, Looking upon 2×
- American Standard Version: Looking 3×, He looked 2×, Looked 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Looked at 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having looked at 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1689 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1689 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1689 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1689 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to turn one's eyes on
- look at
- metaph. to look at with the mind, to consider
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1689 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐμβλέψας emblépsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 19:26 | 6 |
| ἐμβλέψασα emblépsasa | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 14:67 | 1 |
| ἐμβλέψατε emblépsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 6:26 | 1 |
| ἐνέβλεπεν enéblepen | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 8:25 | 1 |
| ἐνέβλεπον enéblepon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Acts 22:11 | 1 |
| ἐνέβλεψεν enéblepsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 22:61 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1689, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
- εμμενω emménō G1696 to remain in
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εμβλεπω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 6 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 3:6 ἐνβλέπω
- 1 Samuel 16:7 ἐνβλέπω
- 1 Kings 8:8 ἐνβλέπω
- Job 2:10 ἐνβλέπω
- Psalms 39:5 ἐνβλέπω
- Isaiah 5:12 ἐνβλέπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1689) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 3:6 ἐνβλέπω Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
- 1 Samuel 16:7 ἐνβλέπω But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
- 1 Kings 8:8 ἐνβλέπω The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.
- Job 2:10 ἐνβλέπω But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Psalms 39:5 ἐνβλέπω Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Isaiah 5:12 ἐνβλέπω The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 5:30 ἐνβλέπω They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
- Isaiah 8:22 ἐνβλέπω and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
- Isaiah 17:7 ἐνβλέπω In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 22:8 ἐνβλέπω He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
- Isaiah 22:11 ἐνβλέπω you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
- Isaiah 51:1 ἐνβλέπω Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
- Isaiah 51:2 ἐνβλέπω Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
- Isaiah 51:6 ἐνβλέπω Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1689) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
