Definition
βλέπω,
[in LXX chiefly for ראה, also for פּנה, etc. ;]
1. of bodily sight;
(a) to see, have sight (opposite to τυφλὸς): Matthew 12:22, John 9:7, Acts 9:9, Romans 11:8, Revelation 3:18, al.;
(b) to perceive, look (at), see: absol., Acts 1:9; with accusative, Matthew 7:3, Mark 5:31, Luke 6:41, John 1:29, al.; ὅραμα, Acts 12:9; γυναῖκα, Matthew 5:28; βιβλίον, Revelation 5:3, 4; τ. βλεπόμενα, 2 Corinthians 4:18.
2. Metaphorical, of mental vision;
(a) to see, perceive, discern: absol., Matthew 13:13, Luke 8:10; δι ̓ ἐσόπτρου, 1 Corinthians 13:12; with accusative, Hebrews 2:9; 10:25; before ὅτι, Hebrews 3:19, James 2:22;
(b) to consider, look to, take heed: absol., Mark 13:23, 33; with accusative, 1 Corinthians 1:26, al.; before πῶς, with indic., Luke 8:18, 1 Corinthians 3:10, Ephesians 5:15; before τί, with indic., Mark 4:24; before εἰς πρόσωπον, of partiality, Matthew 22:16, Mark 12:14. Colloq. (for ex. from π., V. Deiss., LAE, 122; M, Pr., 107; MM, Exp., x; Milligan, NTD, 50), β. ἑαυτόν: Mark 13:9; before ἵνα μή, 2 John 8; β. ἀπό, Mark 8:15; 12:38; before μή (cl. ὁρᾶν), with fut. indic., Colossians 2:8, Hebrews 3:12; id. with aor. subj., Matthew 24:4, Mark 13:5.
3. Of situation and direction (Lat. specto), to look, face (towards), places, etc. (before πρός, Xen, Hell., vii, 1, 17; Ezekiel 40:23, 24): before κατά, with accusative, Acts 27:12 (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, δια-, ἐμ-, ἐπι-, περ-, προ-βλέπω), see DCG, i, 446; ii, 596.
Hebrew words it translates
Usage patterns
Occurrences
- 2 Corinthians 10:7βλέπετε · You are lookingYou are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.
- 2 Corinthians 12:6βλέπει · he seesEven if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,
- Galatians 5:15βλέπετε · watch outBut if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
- Ephesians 5:15Βλέπετε · attentionPay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
- Philippians 3:2Βλέπετε · Watch out for; βλέπετε; βλέπετεWatch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
- Colossians 2:5βλέπων · to seeFor although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
- Colossians 2:8Βλέπετε · See to itSee to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- Colossians 4:17Βλέπε · See to itTell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”
- Hebrews 2:9βλέπομεν · we seeBut we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
- Hebrews 3:12Βλέπετε · See to itSee to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- Hebrews 3:19βλέπομεν · we seeSo we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
- Hebrews 10:25βλέπετε · you seeLet us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- Hebrews 11:1βλεπομένων · we do not seeNow faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
- Hebrews 11:3βλεπόμενον · is seenBy faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
- Hebrews 11:7βλεπομένων · seenBy faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- Hebrews 12:25Βλέπετε · See to it thatSee to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
- James 2:22βλέπεις · You seeYou see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.
- 2 John 1:8βλέπετε · WatchWatch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
- Revelation 1:11βλέπεις · you see…saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- Revelation 1:12βλέπειν · to seeThen I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,
- Revelation 3:18βλέπῃς · you may seeI counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- Revelation 5:3βλέπειν · look insideBut no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
- Revelation 5:4βλέπειν · look insideAnd I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.
- Revelation 9:20βλέπειν · seeNow the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
- Revelation 11:9βλέπουσιν · will viewFor three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
- Revelation 16:15βλέπωσιν · be exposed“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
- Revelation 17:8βλεπόντων · when they seeThe beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
- Revelation 18:9βλέπωσιν · the sight ofThen the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Revelation 18:18βλέποντες · at the sight…and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.
- Revelation 22:8βλέπων · saw; ἔβλεψα · seen [them]And I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.