Strong's #991: blepo (pronounced blep'-o)
a primary verb; to look at (literally or figuratively):--behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed. Compare 3700.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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blepō
1) to see, discern, of the bodily eye
1a) with the bodily eye: to be possessed of sight, have the power of seeing
1b) perceive by the use of the eyes: to see, look descry
1c) to turn the eyes to anything: to look at, look upon, gaze at
1d) to perceive by the senses, to feel
1e) to discover by use, to know by experience
2) metaphorically to see with the mind' s eye
2a) to have (the power of) understanding
2b) to discern mentally, observe, perceive, discover, understand
2c) to turn the thoughts or direct the mind to a thing, to consider, contemplate, to look at, to weigh carefully, examine
3) in a geographical sense of places, mountains, buildings, etc. turning towards any quarter, as it were, facing it
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primary word
Citing in TDNT: 5:315, 706
Usage:
This word is used 135 times:
2 Corinthians 12:6: "me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth"
Galatians 5:15: "and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
Ephesians 5:15: " See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,"
Philippians 3:2: " Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
Philippians 3:2: "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
Philippians 3:2: "beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
Colossians 2:5: "in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and"
Colossians 2:8: " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and"
Colossians 4:17: "And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received"
Hebrews 2:9: "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels"
Hebrews 3:12: " Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil"
Hebrews 3:19: "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
Hebrews 10:25: "one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
Hebrews 11:1: "the evidence of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:3: "were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
Hebrews 11:7: "Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark"
Hebrews 12:25: " See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped"
James 2:22: " Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by"
2 John 1:8: " Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but"
Revelation 1:11: "and the last: and, What thou seest, write in"
Revelation 1:12: "And I turned to see the voice that spake with"
Revelation 3:18: "eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see."
Revelation 5:3: "the book, neither to look thereon."
Revelation 5:4: "the book, neither to look thereon."
Revelation 6:1: "saying, Come and see."
Revelation 6:3: "say, Come and see."
Revelation 6:5: "say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo"
Revelation 6:7: "say, Come and see."
Revelation 9:20: "of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor"
Revelation 11:9: "tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days"
Revelation 16:15: "he walk naked, and they see his shame."
Revelation 17:8: "from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was,"
Revelation 18:9: "for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,"
Revelation 22:8: "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And"
Revelation 22:8: "when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the"
