ἀναβλέπω
to look up
‘to look up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
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.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 11 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (28%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 5 times (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (4%)
+3 more forms (3 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 25 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G308 appears — 23 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 3 verses
- Matthew 11:5 ἀναβλέπουσιν pres act ind 3pl the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Matthew 14:19 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
- Matthew 20:34 ἀνέβλεψαν aor act ind 3pl Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
Mark 6 verses
- Mark 6:41 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
- Mark 7:34 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!"
- Mark 8:24 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking."
- Mark 10:51 ἀναβλέψω aor act subj 1sg Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
- Mark 10:52 ἀνέβλεψεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
- Mark 16:4 ἀναβλέψασαι aor act ptcp nom pl fem for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
Luke 7 verses
- Luke 7:22 ἀναβλέπουσιν pres act ind 3pl Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Luke 9:16 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- Luke 18:41 ἀναβλέψω aor act subj 1sg "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
- Luke 18:42 ἀνάβλεψον aor act impv 2sg Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."
- Luke 18:43 ἀνέβλεψεν aor act ind 3sg Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
- Luke 19:5 ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
- Luke 21:1 Ἀναβλέψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
John 3 verses
- John 9:11 ἀνέβλεψα aor act ind 1sg He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
- John 9:15 ἀνέβλεψεν aor act ind 3sg Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
- John 9:18 ἀνέβλεψεν ἀναβλέψαντος aor act ind 3sg aor act ptcp gen sg masc The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 9:12 ἀναβλέψῃ aor act subj 3sg and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."
- Acts 9:17 ἀναβλέψῃς aor act subj 2sg Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
- Acts 9:18 ἀνέβλεψέν aor act ind 3sg Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
- Acts 22:13 ἀνάβλεψον ἀνέβλεψα aor act impv 2sg aor act ind 1sg came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.
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 αναβλεπω centers on the idea of “to look up.” First canonically at Matthew 11:5, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 23 verses — uncommon. Luke dominates its distribution — 7 of 23 verses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 23-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G308 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 →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #530
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 530 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 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 23 distinct verses.
- Gospels 19 verses · 83%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 48%
- Johannine 3 verses · 13%
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: He looked up 4×, Looking up 3×, He received his sight 2×
- American Standard Version: He looked up 3×, He received his sight 3×, Looking up 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Looking up 4×, Looked up 3×, He received his sight 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having looked up 7×, He saw again 3×, See again 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G308 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 G308 across 25 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 G308 across 24 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G308 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 2 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 look up
- to recover (lost) sight
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G308 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 G308, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
- ανακαλυπτω anakalýptō G343 to uncover
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 78 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναβλεπω appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 11 books.
- 28
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 13:14 ἀναβλέπω
- Exodus 14:10 ἀναβλέπω
- Deuteronomy 3:27 ἀναβλέπω
- Joshua 5:13 ἀναβλέπω
- 1 Samuel 14:27 ἀναβλέπω
- Job 22:26 ἀναβλέπω
- Isaiah 8:21 ἀναβλέπω
- Ezekiel 8:5 ἀναβλέπω
- Daniel 8:3 ἀναβλέπω
- Joel 1:20 ἀναβλέπω
- Zechariah 5:5 ἀναβλέπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G308) 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.
- Genesis 13:14 ἀναβλέπω Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 15:5 ἀναβλέπω Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 18:2 ἀναβλέπω He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Genesis 22:4 ἀναβλέπω On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
- Genesis 22:13 ἀναβλέπω Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Genesis 24:63 ἀναβλέπω Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
- Genesis 24:64 ἀναβλέπω Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
- Genesis 31:12 ἀναβλέπω He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
- Genesis 32:2 ἀναβλέπω When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 33:1 ἀναβλέπω Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:5 ἀναβλέπω He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
- Genesis 37:25 ἀναβλέπω They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 43:29 ἀναβλέπω He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
- Exodus 14:10 ἀναβλέπω When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 3:27 ἀναβλέπω Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 4:19 ἀναβλέπω and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Joshua 5:13 ἀναβλέπω It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
- 1 Samuel 14:27 ἀναβλέπω But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- Job 22:26 ἀναβλέπω For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God.
- Job 35:5 ἀναβλέπω Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
- Isaiah 8:21 ἀναβλέπω They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
- Isaiah 40:26 ἀναβλέπω Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
- Isaiah 42:18 ἀναβλέπω Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
- Ezekiel 8:5 ἀναβλέπω Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
- Daniel 8:3 ἀναβλέπω Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
- Joel 1:20 ἀναβλέπω Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, For the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- Zechariah 5:5 ἀναβλέπω Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G308) 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.
