optanomai (G3700)
Strong’s Greek Dictionary (1890)
FROM STRONG’S GREEK DICTIONARY (1890)
Strong’s Greek Dictionary (1890) — public domain, printed whole.
optanomai ὀπτάνομαι — op-tan'-om-ahee} 或 optomai {op-tom-ahee — of the primary (middle voice) optomai op'-tom-ahee; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of 3708 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.