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3.
(
$1
, 872), with
serving as the aorist tense, “to look away
from one thing so as to see another” ( , “from,” and No. 2), as in Heb. 12:2, simply
means “to see” in Phil. 2:23.¶
4.
(
$1
, 2529), lit., “to look down” (
, and No. 2), denotes “to
discern dearly,” Rom. 1:20, “are clearly seen.”¶ In the Sept., Num. 24:2; Job 10:4;
39:26.¶
5.
(
!
, 1227), “to see clearly” ( , “through,” and No. 1), is used in
Matt. 7:5; Luke 6:42; in Mark 8:25,
RV
, “he looked steadfastly” (No. 6 is used in the next
clause; No. 1 in v. 24, and No. 2 in the last part).¶
6.
(
# !
, 1689), “to look at” ( , “in,” and No. 1), used of earnestly
looking, is translated “saw” in Mark 8:25 (last part); “could (not) see” in Acts 22:11. See
BEHOLD
, No. 3.
7.
(
!
, 308), “to look up,” is translated “see,” of the blind, in Luke
7:22,
KJV
(
RV
, “receive their sight”). See
SIGHT
.
8.
(
1
, 2300), “to view attentively, to see with admiration, desire, or
regard,” stresses more especially the action of the person beholding, as with No. 1, in
contrast to No. 2; it is used in Matt. 11:7 (
RV
, “to behold”), while
, the infinitive of
(see under No. 2), is used in the questions in the next two verses; in verse 7 the
interest in the onlooker is stressed, in vv. 8, 9, the attention is especially directed to the
object “seen.” The verb is translated “to see” in the
KJV
and
RV
of Matt. 6:1; Mark 16:11,
14; John 6:5; Acts 8:18 (in some mss.); 21:27; Rom. 15:24; elsewhere, for the
KJV
, “to
see,” the
RV
uses the verb “to behold,” bringing out its force more suitably. See
BEHOLD
,
No. 8.
9.
(
$!
, 2334) denotes “to be a spectator of,” indicating the careful
perusal of details in the object; it points especially, as in No. 1, to the action of the person
beholding, e.g., Matt. 28:1; the
RV
frequently renders it by “to behold,” for the
KJV
, “to
see,” e.g., John 14:17, 19; 16:10, 16, 17, 19. The difference between this verb and Nos. 1
and 2 is brought out in John 20:5, 6, 8; in v. 5
is used of John’s sight of the linen
cloths in the tomb, without his entering in; he “saw” at a glance the Lord was not there; in
v. 6 the closer contemplation by Peter is expressed in the verb
. But in v. 8 the
grasping by John of the significance of the undisturbed cloths is denoted by
(see
No. 2, and see
WRAP
).
10.
$
(
1
, 3467), “to be short-sighted” (
$
, “to shut,”
, “the eye”;
cf. Eng., “myopy,” “myopic”: the root
$
signifies a sound made with closed lips, e.g., in
the words “mutter,” “mute”), occurs in 2 Pet. 1:9,
RV
, “seeing only what is near” (
KJV
,
“and cannot see afar oft”); this does not contradict the preceding word “blind,” it
qualifies it; he of whom it is true is blind in that he cannot discern spiritual things, he is
near-sighted in that he is occupied in regarding worldly affairs.¶