Dictionary entry

G03708

An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon Keyed to Strong's Numbers

ὁράω

"To see":

I. absol. "to see" or "look", Hom., etc.; κατ᾽ αὐτοὺς αἰὲν ὅρα "he kept looking" down at them, Il.; ὁρόων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον "looking" over the sea, id=Il.:— ὁρᾶν πρός τι, like Lat. spectare ad, to look towards, ἀκρωτήριον τὸ πρὸς Μέγαρα ὁρῶν Thuc.

2. "to have sight", Soph.: hence says Oedipus, ὅσ᾽ ἂν λέγωμεν, πάνθ᾽ ὁρῶντα λέξομεν [though I am blind], my words "shall have eyes", i. e. shall be to the purpose, id=Soph.; ἀμβλύτερον ὁρᾶν to be dim-sighted, Plat.

3. "to see to, look to", i. e. "take heed, beware", ὅρα ὅπως.., Ar.; ὅρα εἰ.., "see" whether.., Aesch., etc.

4. ὁρᾷς; ὁρᾶτε; "see'st thou? d'ye see?" parenthetically, esp. in explanations, like Lat. viden'? Ar.

5. c. acc. cogn. "to look" so and so, δεινὸν ὁρῶν ὄσσοισι Hes.; ἔαρ ὁρόωσα Theocr.

II. trans. "to see" an object, "look at, behold, perceive, observe", c. acc., Hom., etc.; αἰεὶ τέρμ᾽ ὁρόων always "keeping" it "in sight", Il.

2. poet. for ζάω, ζώει καὶ ὁρᾷ φάος Ἠελίοιο Hom.; so, φῶς ὁρᾶν Soph.; and in Mid., φέγγος ὁρᾶσθαι Eur.

III. "to look out for, provide", τί τινι Soph., Theocr.

2. the inf. is used after an adj., δεινὸς ἰδεῖν terrible "to behold", Solon; ἔχθιστος ὁρᾶν Soph., etc.

IV. the Mid. is used by Poets just like the Act., Il., Aesch., etc.

V. Pass. "to be seen", Aesch., etc.: also like φαίνομαι "to let oneself be seen, appear", Plat.: τὰ ὁρώμενα "all that is seen, things visible", id=Plat.

VI. metaph., ὁρᾶν is used of mental sight, "to discern, perceive", Soph., etc.; so blind Oedipus says, φωνῇ γὰρ ὁρῶ, τὸ φατιζόμενον "I see" by sound, as the saying is, id=Soph.