Definition

to gaze intently

Etymology

from a compound of G1 (Α) (as a particle of union) and (to stretch);

Where the KJV renders it

• behold earnestly (stedfastly)
• fasten (eyes)
• look (earnestly
• stedfastly
• up stedfastly)
• set eyes

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.