θεάομαι, -ῶμαι,
[in LXX: II Ch 22:6 (ראה), To 2:2 13:6, 14, Jth 15:8, II Mac 2:4 3:36, III Mac 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": c. acc. rei, Mt 11:7, Lk 7:2423:55, Jo 1:14, 324:3511:45, Ac 22:9, I Jo 1:1; c. acc. pers., Mt 22:11, Ac 21:27, Ro 15:24, I Jo 4:12; c. ptcp., Mk 16:[14], Lk 5:27, Jo 1:38, Ac 1:11; seq. ὅτι, Jo 6:5, I Jo 4:14; pass., Mt 6:123:5, Mk 16:[11].†
SYN.: v.s. θεωρέω.