θεωρέω
to behold
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
4 distinct verses where G2334 appears in the Aorist tense, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
John 1 verse
Revelation 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.
The Greek verb θεωρεω centers on the idea of “to behold.” Where the King James Version says “seeth,” newer translations reach for “saw” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 55 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to John (38%), then Acts and Mark. Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2334 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 →
- 55
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 55 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #284
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 284 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 55 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 55 distinct verses.
- Gospels 37 verses · 67%
- Johannine 24 verses · 44%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 38%
- Revelation 2 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 2%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 2%
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: Seeth 9×, See 8×, Ye see 5×
- American Standard Version: Beholdeth 7×, Ye behold 6×, Beheld 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Saw 8×, Sees 5×, They saw 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: See 10×, Seeing 8×, You see 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2334 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 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 G2334 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 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 G2334 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 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 G2334 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 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 4 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 be a spectator, look at, behold
- to perceive with the eyes, to enjoy the presence of one
- to discern, descry
- to ascertain, find out by seeing
Word origin
Derived from θεαομαι (theáomai) (G2300) — to behold.
Forms in the corpus
The 25 distinct written forms G2334 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2334, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θεωρεω appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 6 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- 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
- Joshua 8:20 θεωρέω
- Judges 16:27 θεωρέω
- Psalms 21:8 θεωρέω
- Proverbs 15:30 θεωρέω
- Ecclesiastes 7:11 θεωρέω
- Daniel 3:91 θεωρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2334) 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.
- Joshua 8:20 θεωρέω When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
- Judges 16:27 θεωρέω Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- Psalms 21:8 θεωρέω Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- Psalms 26:4 θεωρέω I have not sat with deceitful men, Neither will I go in with hypocrites.
- Psalms 30:12 θεωρέω To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
- Psalms 49:18 θεωρέω Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- And men praise you when you do well for yourself--
- Psalms 63:9 θεωρέω But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Psalms 65:18 θεωρέω
- Psalms 67:25 θεωρέω
- Psalms 72:3 θεωρέω The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
- Proverbs 15:30 θεωρέω The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.
- Proverbs 31:16 θεωρέω She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
- Ecclesiastes 7:11 θεωρέω Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
- Daniel 3:91 θεωρέω
- Daniel 3:94 θεωρέω
- Daniel 4:6 θεωρέω Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
- Daniel 7:2 θεωρέω Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
- Daniel 7:4 θεωρέω The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
- Daniel 7:6 θεωρέω After this I saw, and, behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Daniel 7:7 θεωρέω After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:9 θεωρέω I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
- Daniel 7:11 θεωρέω I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
- Daniel 7:13 θεωρέω I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Daniel 8:15 θεωρέω It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2334) 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.
