Strong's #3700: hopou (pronounced hop'-oo)
to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
̓́ / ̓́
optanomai / optomai
1) to look at, behold
2) to allow one' s self to be seen, to appear
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) optomai, which is used for it in certain tenses, and both as alternate of G3708
Citing in TDNT: 5:315, 706
Usage:
This word is used 60 times:
1 Timothy 3:16: "justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,"
Hebrews 9:28: "of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin"
Hebrews 12:14: "without which no man shall see the Lord:"
Hebrews 13:23: "if he come shortly, I will see you."
1 John 3:2: "like him; for we shall see him as he is."
Revelation 1:7: "and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced"
Revelation 11:19: "in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the"
Revelation 12:1: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with"
Revelation 12:3: "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold"
Revelation 22:4: "And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in"
