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1.
(
!
, 991), primarily, “to have sight, to see,” then, “observe, discern,
perceive,” frequently implying special contemplation (cf. No. 4), is rendered by the verb
“to look” in Luke 9:62, “looking (back)”; John 13:22 “(the disciples) looked (one on
another)”; Acts 1:9,
RV
, “were looking” (
KJV
, “beheld”); 3:4, “look (on us)”; 27:12,
RV
,
looking,”
KJV
, “that lieth (towards),” of the haven Phenix; Eph. 5:15,
RV
, “look (therefore
carefully how ye walk),”
KJV
, “see (that ye walk circumspectly)”; Rev. 11:9 and 18:9,
RV
,
“look upon” (
KJV
, “shall see”). See
BEHOLD
.
2.
(
!
, 308), denotes (a) “to look up” ( , “up,” and No. 1), e.g.,
Matt. 14:19; Mark 8:24 (in some mss. v. 25); (b) “to recover sight,” e.g., Matt. 11:5;
20:34,
RV
, “received their sight”; John 9:11. See
SIGHT
. Cf.
, “recovering of
sight,” Luke 4:18.
3.
(
$ !
, 4017), “to look about, or round about, on” ( , “around,”
and No. 1), is used in the middle voice, Mark 3:5, 34, 5:32; 9:8; 10:23; 11:11; Luke
6:10.¶
4.
(
!
, 578) signifies “to look away from” ( ) all else at one
object; hence, “to look steadfastly,” Heb. 11:26,
RV
, “he looked” (
KJV
, “he had
respect”).¶ Cf. No. 8.
5.
(
# !
, 1689), to look at ( , in, and No. 1), is translated “to look
upon” in Mark 10:27; 14:67; Luke 22:61; John 1:36. This verb implies a close,
penetrating “look,” as distinguished from Nos. 6 and 9. See
BEHOLD
, No. 3,
GAZE
,
SEE
,
No. 6.
6.
(
# !
, 1914), “to look upon” ( , “upon”), is used in the NT of
favorable regard, Luke 1:48,
RV
, “he hath looked upon” (
KJV
, “hath regarded”), of the
low estate of the Virgin Mary; in 9:38, in a request to the Lord to “look” upon an afflicted
son; in Jas. 2:3,
RV
, “ye have regard” (
KJV
, “… respect”), of having a partial regard for
the well-to-do. See
REGARD
,
RESPECT
.¶
7.
(
3$1
, 3708), used as the aorist tense of
, “to see,” in various senses, is
translated “to look,” in the
KJV
of John 7:52,
RV
, “see;” Rev. 4:1 (
RV
, “I saw”); so in 6:8;
14:1, 14 (as in
KJV
of v. 6), and 15:5. See
BEHOLD
,
CONSIDER
,
HEED
, No. 2,
PERCEIVE
,
SEE
,
SHEW
.
8.
(
$1
, 872), “to look away from one thing so as to see another” ( ,
“from,” and No. 7), “to concentrate the gaze upon,” occurs in Phil. 2:23, “I shall see;”
Heb. 12:2, “looking.”¶
9.
(
#
, 1896) denotes “to look upon” ( , “upon”), (a) favorably, Luke
1:25 (b) unfavorably, in Acts 4:29.¶
10.
$
(
$
"
, 3879), lit. and primarily, “to stoop sideways”
,
“aside,”
$
, “to bend forward”), denotes “to stoop to look into,” Luke 24:12,
“stooping and looking in” (
KJV
, “stooping down”), John 20:5, 11; metaphorically in Jas.
1:25, of “looking” into the perfect law of liberty; in 1 Pet. 1:12 of things which the angels
desire “to look into.¶