θεάομαι

θεάομαι, -ῶμαι

[in LXX; 2 Kron 22,6 (רָאָה), Tob 2,2; 13,6, 14, Jdt 15,8, 2Ma 2,4 2Mac 3,36, 3Ma 5,47 * ;]

to behold, look upon, contemplate, view (in early writers with a sense of wondering), in NT apparently always in literal, physical sense of "careful and deliberate vision which interprets . . . its object": with accusative of thing(s), Matt 11,7, Luk 7,24; 23,55, Joh 1,14, 32; 4,35; 11,45, ApG 22,9, 1 Joh 1,1; with accusative of person(s), Matt 22,11, ApG 21,27, Rom 15,24, 1 Joh 4,12; with ptcp., Mark 16,14, Luk 5,27, Joh 1,38, ApG 1,11; before ὅτι, Joh 6,5, 1 Joh 4,14; pass., Matt 6,1; 23,5, Mark 16,11.†

SYN.: see: θεωρέω