Definition

used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι) and G3708 (ὁράω); properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know

Etymology

a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• be aware
• behold
• X can (+ not tell)
• consider
• (have) know(-ledge)
• look (on)
• perceive
• see
• be sure
• tell
• understand
• wish
• wot

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

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