ὁράω
to see
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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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- 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).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
116 verses where G3708 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:11 ὤφθη aor pass ind 3sg An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
- Luke 1:12 ἰδών aor act ptcp nom sg masc Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
- Luke 1:20 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."
- Luke 1:31 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'
- Luke 1:36 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Luke 1:38 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word." The angel departed from her.
- Luke 1:44 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
- Luke 1:48 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg For he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
- Luke 2:10 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
- Luke 2:15 ἴδωμεν aor act subj 1pl It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
- Luke 2:17 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
- Luke 2:20 ἴδον aor act ind 3pl The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
- Luke 2:25 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
- Luke 2:26 ἰδεῖν ἴδῃ aor act inf aor act subj 3sg It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
- Luke 2:30 εἶδον aor act ind 3pl For my eyes have seen your salvation,
- Luke 2:34 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
- Luke 2:48 ἰδόντες ἰδοὺ aor act ptcp nom pl masc aor mid impv 2sg When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
- Luke 5:2 ἴδεν aor act ind 3sg He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
- Luke 5:8 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."
- Luke 5:12 ἰδοὺ ἰδὼν aor mid impv 2sg aor act ptcp nom sg masc It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
- Luke 5:18 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
- Luke 5:20 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
- Luke 5:26 εἴδομεν aor act ind 1pl Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
- Luke 6:23 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
- Luke 7:12 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
- Luke 7:13 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don't cry."
- Luke 7:22 εἴδετε aor act ind 2pl 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 7:25 ἰδεῖν ἰδοὺ aor act inf aor mid impv 2sg But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
- Luke 7:26 ἰδεῖν aor act inf But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
- Luke 7:27 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'
- Luke 7:34 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
- Luke 7:37 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
- Luke 7:39 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
- Luke 8:20 ἰδεῖν aor act inf It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you."
- Luke 8:28 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
- Luke 8:34 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
- Luke 8:35 ἰδεῖν aor act inf People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
- Luke 8:36 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.
- Luke 8:41 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house,
- Luke 8:47 ἰδοῦσα aor act ptcp nom sg fem When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
- Luke 9:9 ἰδεῖν aor act inf Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.
- Luke 9:27 ἴδωσιν aor act subj 3pl But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Kingdom of God."
- Luke 9:30 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
- Luke 9:31 ὀφθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
- Luke 9:32 εἶδαν aor act ind 3pl Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
- Luke 9:38 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
- Luke 9:39 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
- Luke 9:49 εἴδομέν aor act ind 1pl John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow with us."
- Luke 9:54 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"
- Luke 10:3 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
- Luke 10:19 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
- Luke 10:24 ἰδεῖν ἴδαν aor act inf aor act ind 3pl for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."
- Luke 10:25 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 10:31 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- Luke 10:32 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
- Luke 10:33 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
- Luke 11:31 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
- Luke 11:32 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 11:38 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
- Luke 11:41 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
- Luke 12:54 ἴδητε aor act subj 2pl He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.
- Luke 13:7 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
- Luke 13:11 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
- Luke 13:12 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."
- Luke 13:16 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
- Luke 13:30 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
- Luke 13:32 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
- Luke 13:35 ἰδοὺ ἴδητέ aor mid impv 2sg aor act subj 2pl Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
- Luke 14:2 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
- Luke 14:18 ἰδεῖν aor act inf They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'
- Luke 15:20 εἶδεν aor act ind 3sg "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
- Luke 15:29 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 17:14 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
- Luke 17:15 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
- Luke 17:21 ἰδοὺ ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg aor mid impv 2sg neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."
- Luke 17:22 ἰδεῖν ὄψεσθε aor act inf fut mid.dep ind 2pl He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
- Luke 17:23 ἰδοὺ ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg aor mid impv 2sg They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them,
- Luke 18:15 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
- Luke 18:24 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
- Luke 18:28 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
- Luke 18:31 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
- Luke 18:43 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
- Luke 19:2 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
- Luke 19:3 ἰδεῖν aor act inf He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
- Luke 19:4 ἴδῃ aor act subj 3sg He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
- Luke 19:7 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
- Luke 19:8 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
- Luke 19:20 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
- Luke 19:37 εἶδον aor act ind 3pl As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
- Luke 19:41 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
- Luke 20:14 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
- Luke 21:1 εἶδεν aor act ind 3sg He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
- Luke 21:2 εἶδεν aor act ind 3sg He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
- Luke 21:20 ἴδητε aor act subj 2pl "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
- Luke 21:29 ἴδετε aor act impv 2pl He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.
- Luke 21:31 ἴδητε aor act subj 2pl Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.
- Luke 22:10 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.
- Luke 22:21 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
- Luke 22:31 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
- Luke 22:38 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."
- Luke 22:43 ὤφθη aor pass ind 3sg An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
- Luke 22:47 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
- Luke 22:49 ἰδόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
- Luke 22:56 ἰδοῦσα aor act ptcp nom sg fem A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
- Luke 22:58 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"
- Luke 23:8 ἰδὼν ἰδεῖν ἰδεῖν aor act ptcp nom sg masc aor act inf aor act inf Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
- Luke 23:14 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
- Luke 23:15 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
- Luke 23:29 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
- Luke 23:47 ἰδὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
- Luke 23:50 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
- Luke 24:4 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
- Luke 24:13 ἰδοὺ aor mid impv 2sg Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
- Luke 24:24 εἶδον aor act ind 3pl Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."
- Luke 24:34 ὤφθη aor pass ind 3sg saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
- Luke 24:39 ἴδετε ἴδετε aor act impv 2pl aor act impv 2pl See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."
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 see” is the headline sense of the Greek verb οραω (horáō). Where the King James Version says “seen,” newer translations reach for “saw” (Berean Standard Bible) and “behold” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 626 verses — among the most common. First canonically at Matthew 1:20, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 6 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 G3708 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 →
- 626
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 626 distinct verses.
- 21 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
- #27
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 27 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 626 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 626 distinct verses.
- Gospels 393 verses · 63%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 209 verses · 33%
- Johannine 165 verses · 26%
- Revelation 77 verses · 12%
- Pauline corpus 37 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 21 verses · 3%
- Hebrews 14 verses · 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: Seen 10×, See 8×, Take heed 5×
- American Standard Version: Seen 10×, See 7×, Hath seen 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Saw 87×, See 51×, I saw 36×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Behold 224×, Having seen 76×, See 73×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3708 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 19 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3708 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 19 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 G3708 across 445 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 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 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3708 across 730 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 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 6 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 see with the eyes
- to see with the mind, to perceive, know
- to see, i.e. become acquainted with by experience, to experience
- to take heed, beware
- to care for, pay heed to
- I was seen, showed myself, appeared
Word origin
Derived from οπτανομαι (optánomai) (G3700) — to look at.
Properly to stare at (compare G3700 ) that is (by implication) to discern clearly (physically or mentally); by extension to attend to; by hebraism to experience ; passively to appear : - behold perceive see take heed.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 76 distinct written forms G3708 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 16 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3708, 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
- ομμα ómma G3659 eye
- οπη opḗ G3692 opening
- οπισθεν ópisthen G3693 behind
- οπτασια optasía G3701 vision
- οφθαλμος ophthalmós G3788 eye
- οφις óphis G3789 serpent
- οφρυς ophrŷs G3790 eyebrow
- οψις ópsis G3799 face
- σκυθρωπος skythrōpós G4659 sad-faced
Derived from this word
- οπτανομαι optánomai G3700 to look at
- οραμα hórama G3705 vision
- ορασις hórasis G3706 sight
- ορατος horatós G3707 visible
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οραω appears 1,200 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,119 verses in 37 books.
- 1,200
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1,119
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 37 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:4 ὁράω
- Exodus 2:2 ὁράω
- Leviticus 5:1 ὁράω
- Numbers 1:49 ὁράω
- Deuteronomy 1:8 ὁράω
- Joshua 2:1 ὁράω
- Judges 1:24 ὁράω
- Ruth 1:18 ὁράω
- 1 Samuel 1:22 ὁράω
- 2 Samuel 1:7 ὁράω
- 1 Kings 3:5 ὁράω
- 2 Kings 2:10 ὁράω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3708) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,119. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:4 ὁράω God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:8 ὁράω God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 ὁράω God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:10 ὁράω God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:12 ὁράω The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:18 ὁράω and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:21 ὁράω God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:25 ὁράω God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:31 ὁράω God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:19 ὁράω Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 3:6 ὁράω When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 6:2 ὁράω that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:5 ὁράω Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:12 ὁράω God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 7:1 ὁράω Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 8:5 ὁράω The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
- Genesis 8:7 ὁράω and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:8 ὁράω He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,
- Genesis 8:13 ὁράω It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 9:14 ὁράω It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Genesis 9:16 ὁράω The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:22 ὁράω Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 9:23 ὁράω Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
- Genesis 11:5 ὁράω Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 12:7 ὁράω Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 12:12 ὁράω It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 12:14 ὁράω It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- Genesis 12:15 ὁράω The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
- Genesis 13:10 ὁράω Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Genesis 13:14 ὁράω 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 13:15 ὁράω for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Genesis 16:4 ὁράω He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
- Genesis 16:5 ὁράω Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Genesis 16:13 ὁράω She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
- Genesis 16:14 ὁράω Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
- Genesis 17:1 ὁράω When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 18:1 ὁράω Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
- Genesis 18:2 ὁράω 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 18:21 ὁράω I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Genesis 19:1 ὁράω The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
- Genesis 19:28 ὁράω He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
- Genesis 21:9 ὁράω Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
- Genesis 21:16 ὁράω She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 21:19 ὁράω God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
- Genesis 22:4 ὁράω On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
- Genesis 22:8 ὁράω Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
- Genesis 22:13 ὁράω 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 22:14 ὁράω Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-Jireh. As it is said to this day, "In Yahweh's mountain it will be provided.
- Genesis 24:30 ὁράω It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:63 ὁράω Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3708) 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.
