ὅρασις
sight
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G3706 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. 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.
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 4:3 ὁράσει ὁράσει n dat sg fem n dat sg fem that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
- Revelation 9:17 ὁράσει n dat sg fem Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
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.
“sight” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ορασις (hórasis). It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Revelation, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 2:17. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3706 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 67%
- Acts 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 2 verses · 67%
- Revelation 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Look upon 1×, Sight 1×, Vision 1×
- American Standard Version: Look upon 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gleamed 1×, Looked 1×, Vision 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Appearance 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3706 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3706 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3706 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3706 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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.
- the sense of sight, the eyes
- appearance, visible form
- an appearance divinely granted in an ecstasy or dream
Word origin
Derived from οραω (horáō) (G3708) — to see.
From G3708 ; the act of gazing that is (external) an aspect or (internal) an inspired appearance : - sight vision.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3706 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὁράσει horásei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 4:3 | 3 |
| ὁράσεις horáseis | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 2:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3706, 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
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ορασις appears 89 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 79 verses in 22 books.
- 89
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 79
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:9 ὅρασις
- Leviticus 13:12 ὅρασις
- Numbers 24:4 ὅρασις
- 1 Samuel 3:1 ὅρασις
- 2 Samuel 7:17 ὅρασις
- 1 Chronicles 17:15 ὅρασις
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 ὅρασις
- Job 37:18 ὅρασις
- Psalms 88:20 ὅρασις
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 ὅρασις
- Isaiah 1:1 ὅρασις
- Jeremiah 14:14 ὅρασις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3706) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 79. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:9 ὅρασις Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 24:62 ὅρασις Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi. For he lived in the land of the South.
- Genesis 25:11 ὅρασις It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
- Genesis 31:49 ὅρασις and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
- Genesis 40:5 ὅρασις They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
- Leviticus 13:12 ὅρασις "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;
- Numbers 24:4 ὅρασις He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Numbers 24:16 ὅρασις He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- 1 Samuel 3:1 ὅρασις The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
- 1 Samuel 3:15 ὅρασις Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
- 1 Samuel 16:12 ὅρασις He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
- 2 Samuel 7:17 ὅρασις According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
- 1 Chronicles 17:15 ὅρασις According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
- 1 Chronicles 17:17 ὅρασις This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 ὅρασις Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
- Job 37:18 ὅρασις Can you, with him, spread out the sky, Which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
- Psalms 88:20 ὅρασις
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 ὅρασις Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Isaiah 1:1 ὅρασις The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
- Isaiah 13:1 ὅρασις The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Isaiah 19:1 ὅρασις The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Isaiah 30:6 ὅρασις The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
- Isaiah 66:24 ὅρασις They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
- Jeremiah 14:14 ὅρασις Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
- Jeremiah 23:16 ὅρασις Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
- Lamentations 2:9 ὅρασις Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 1:1 ὅρασις Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:4 ὅρασις I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
- Ezekiel 1:5 ὅρασις Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- Ezekiel 1:13 ὅρασις As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
- Ezekiel 1:22 ὅρασις Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.
- Ezekiel 1:26 ὅρασις Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
- Ezekiel 1:27 ὅρασις I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.
- Ezekiel 1:28 ὅρασις As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
- Ezekiel 3:23 ὅρασις Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
- Ezekiel 7:26 ὅρασις Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
- Ezekiel 8:2 ὅρασις Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
- Ezekiel 8:3 ὅρασις He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
- Ezekiel 8:4 ὅρασις Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
- Ezekiel 11:24 ὅρασις The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
- Ezekiel 12:22 ὅρασις Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
- Ezekiel 12:23 ὅρασις Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
- Ezekiel 12:24 ὅρασις For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 12:27 ὅρασις Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
- Ezekiel 13:7 ὅρασις Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?
- Ezekiel 21:34 ὅρασις
- Ezekiel 23:16 ὅρασις As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
- Ezekiel 40:2 ὅρασις In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
- Ezekiel 40:3 ὅρασις He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
- Ezekiel 41:21 ὅρασις As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3706) 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.
