Strong G3706ὅρασις
appearance/vision
- Transliteration
- horasis
- Pronunciation
- hor'-as-is
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G3708; the act of gazing that is (external) an aspect or (internal) an inspired appearance: - sight vision.
Detailed definition
ὅρασις, -εως, ἡ
(ὁράω) [in LXX chiefly for מַרְאֶה, חָזוֹן and cognate forms;]
1. in Arist. and later writers, the act of seeing, the sense of sight, and by meton., pl., the eyes.
2. appearance (Num.24:4, Eze.1:5, Sir.41:20, al.): Rev.4:3.
3. = ὅραμα, a vision: Act.2:17 (LXX), Rev.9:17.†
(AS)
(ὁράω) [in LXX chiefly for מַרְאֶה, חָזוֹן and cognate forms;]
1. in Arist. and later writers, the act of seeing, the sense of sight, and by meton., pl., the eyes.
2. appearance (Num.24:4, Eze.1:5, Sir.41:20, al.): Rev.4:3.
3. = ὅραμα, a vision: Act.2:17 (LXX), Rev.9:17.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3706 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vision2
- look1
- sight1
First verses
- Acts 2:17And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
- Revelation 4:3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
- Revelation 9:17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὅρ-ᾱσις, εως, ἡ,
seeing, the act of sight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demades Orator 3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1174a14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 123, etc.)]; distinguished as the ἐνέργεια or act from ὄψις (the sense or faculty), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 426a13, compare 428a7)]; but, power of sight, [Refs (“SIG” 1141 (from Thrace).)]
2 plural, eyes, τὰς ὁ. ἐκκόπτειν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.6, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.45, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.88d: _metaphorically_, as title of the daughter-goddess of the Sun, ὅρασιν αὑτοῦ (i.e. τοῦ Ἡλίου) “OGI” 56.56 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC).)]
II a vision, [LXX+NT (LXX.Joel.2.28, NT.Act.2.17 (_plural_).)]
III appearance, ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι [NT (NT.Rev.4.3; ὁ μεταμορφούμενος ἐν ταῖς ὁράσεσιν “PLeid.W.” 13.36.)]
seeing, the act of sight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demades Orator 3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1174a14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 123, etc.)]; distinguished as the ἐνέργεια or act from ὄψις (the sense or faculty), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 426a13, compare 428a7)]; but, power of sight, [Refs (“SIG” 1141 (from Thrace).)]
2 plural, eyes, τὰς ὁ. ἐκκόπτειν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.6, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.45, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.88d: _metaphorically_, as title of the daughter-goddess of the Sun, ὅρασιν αὑτοῦ (i.e. τοῦ Ἡλίου) “OGI” 56.56 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC).)]
II a vision, [LXX+NT (LXX.Joel.2.28, NT.Act.2.17 (_plural_).)]
III appearance, ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι [NT (NT.Rev.4.3; ὁ μεταμορφούμενος ἐν ταῖς ὁράσεσιν “PLeid.W.” 13.36.)]