Strong G578ἀποβλέπω
to look ahead
- Transliteration
- apoblepō
- Pronunciation
- ap-ob-lep'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀπο-βλέπω
[in LXX for פָּנָה, etc.;]
to look away from all else at one object; hence, to look steadfastly: Heb.11:26 (cf. ἀφοράω).†
(AS)
[in LXX for פָּנָה, etc.;]
to look away from all else at one object; hence, to look steadfastly: Heb.11:26 (cf. ἀφοράω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G578 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- respect1
First verses
- Hebrews 11:26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπο-βλέπω,
future -βλέψομαι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Somn.” 12,)] etc., but -βλέψω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “(Spiritalia) Pneumatica” 2.34)]: perfect -βέβλεφα[Refs 5th c.AD+ (Antip.Stoic. 3.254 codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes)]:—middle, present, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.47 (variant))]: aorist, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.247)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 726)]:—look away from all other objects at one, gaze steadfastly, ἐς ἐμέ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.135; εῐς σε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 246, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 162b, +others; ἐς ἀκτάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1206; ἐς μίαν τύχην [prev. author] “Hel.” 267; πρὸς τὸ Ηραιον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.61, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 431b; πρός τινα [prev. author] “Phd.” 115c, “Phdr.” 234d, +others)]
2 pay attention to, regard, ἐς τὸ κακόν[NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1171; πρὸς τὰ κοινά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 422; εἰς τὰ πράγματα ἀ. φαύλως ἔχοντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.29; εἰς τὸ κέρδος μόνον 5th-6th c.BC: Demetrius Comicus Veteris Comoediae 4; εἰς τὴν μισθαποδοσίαν NT.Heb.11.26; ἐπί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 61d; κατάτι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 18.1; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 477c, +others; εἰς τὰ πράγματα καὶ πρὸς τοὺς λόγους ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.1: with _accusative_, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Vertigine” 8, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 26, etc.)]
3 of places, etc., look, face in a particular direction, πρὸς ὁδόν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 76.11 (of a statue); Ρήνου προχοάς “Anthologia Graeca” 9.283 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus); ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολήν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.5.5.)]
4 look upon with love, wonder or admiration, look at as a model, with accusative, οὐ χρὴ.. μέγαν ὄλβον ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 593; ἀ. τινά 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Vit.Auct.” 10, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.265; προϊόντα ἴσα θεῷ ἀπέβλεπον 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.24)]; more frequently with a preposition, εἰς ἔμ᾽ Ελλὰς.. ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1378; ἡ σὴ πατρὶς εἰς σὲ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.8,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58; εἰς τὴν εὐσέβειαν τῆς θεοῦ “SIG” 867.11 (from Ephesus))]; so ἀ. πρός τινα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 928, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.30, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.2)]; of a vain person, ἀ. εἰς τὴν ἑαντῆς σκιάν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.22)]; of entire dependence, πάντα ἀ. εἰς τὸν ἐραστήν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239b; εἰς ἀλλοτρίαν τράπεζαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.33)]; look longingly, ἐς τὸν ἀγρόν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 32)]:—passive, to be looked up to, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ec.” 726, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Socraticus Philosophus “fragment” 56D.; ὡς εὐδαίμων ἀ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 13, compare “Somn.” 11.)]
5 ἐς τοιόνδ᾽ ἀποβλέψας μόνον τροαῖον αὐτοῦ στήσομαι with a single look, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 762.)]
II look away, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 21.13: with _genitive_, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.1)]; ἀ. ἀπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων face both ways, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.31)]; ἀπὸ τοῦ συμφέροντος Antip. [prev. cited]
III middle, look at each other, ταυρωπὸν ἀποβλεψάμενοι[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.602.)]
future -βλέψομαι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Somn.” 12,)] etc., but -βλέψω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “(Spiritalia) Pneumatica” 2.34)]: perfect -βέβλεφα[Refs 5th c.AD+ (Antip.Stoic. 3.254 codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes)]:—middle, present, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.47 (variant))]: aorist, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.247)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 726)]:—look away from all other objects at one, gaze steadfastly, ἐς ἐμέ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.135; εῐς σε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 246, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 162b, +others; ἐς ἀκτάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1206; ἐς μίαν τύχην [prev. author] “Hel.” 267; πρὸς τὸ Ηραιον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.61, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 431b; πρός τινα [prev. author] “Phd.” 115c, “Phdr.” 234d, +others)]
2 pay attention to, regard, ἐς τὸ κακόν[NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1171; πρὸς τὰ κοινά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 422; εἰς τὰ πράγματα ἀ. φαύλως ἔχοντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.29; εἰς τὸ κέρδος μόνον 5th-6th c.BC: Demetrius Comicus Veteris Comoediae 4; εἰς τὴν μισθαποδοσίαν NT.Heb.11.26; ἐπί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 61d; κατάτι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 18.1; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 477c, +others; εἰς τὰ πράγματα καὶ πρὸς τοὺς λόγους ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.1: with _accusative_, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Vertigine” 8, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 26, etc.)]
3 of places, etc., look, face in a particular direction, πρὸς ὁδόν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 76.11 (of a statue); Ρήνου προχοάς “Anthologia Graeca” 9.283 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus); ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολήν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.5.5.)]
4 look upon with love, wonder or admiration, look at as a model, with accusative, οὐ χρὴ.. μέγαν ὄλβον ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 593; ἀ. τινά 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Vit.Auct.” 10, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.265; προϊόντα ἴσα θεῷ ἀπέβλεπον 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.24)]; more frequently with a preposition, εἰς ἔμ᾽ Ελλὰς.. ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1378; ἡ σὴ πατρὶς εἰς σὲ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.8,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58; εἰς τὴν εὐσέβειαν τῆς θεοῦ “SIG” 867.11 (from Ephesus))]; so ἀ. πρός τινα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 928, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.30, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.2)]; of a vain person, ἀ. εἰς τὴν ἑαντῆς σκιάν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.22)]; of entire dependence, πάντα ἀ. εἰς τὸν ἐραστήν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239b; εἰς ἀλλοτρίαν τράπεζαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.33)]; look longingly, ἐς τὸν ἀγρόν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 32)]:—passive, to be looked up to, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ec.” 726, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Socraticus Philosophus “fragment” 56D.; ὡς εὐδαίμων ἀ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 13, compare “Somn.” 11.)]
5 ἐς τοιόνδ᾽ ἀποβλέψας μόνον τροαῖον αὐτοῦ στήσομαι with a single look, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 762.)]
II look away, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 21.13: with _genitive_, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.1)]; ἀ. ἀπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων face both ways, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.31)]; ἀπὸ τοῦ συμφέροντος Antip. [prev. cited]
III middle, look at each other, ταυρωπὸν ἀποβλεψάμενοι[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.602.)]