Strong G3799ὄψις
face
- Transliteration
- opsis
- Pronunciation
- op'-sis
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G3700; properly sight (the act) that is (by implication) the visage an external show: - appearance countenance face.
Detailed definition
ὄψις, -εως, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for מַרְאֶה;]
1. the act of seeing, the sense of sight.
2. face, countenance: Jhn.11:44, Rev.1:16.
3. appearance: κατ᾽ ὄ. κρίνειν (see MM, xviii), Jhn.7:24.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for מַרְאֶה;]
1. the act of seeing, the sense of sight.
2. face, countenance: Jhn.11:44, Rev.1:16.
3. appearance: κατ᾽ ὄ. κρίνειν (see MM, xviii), Jhn.7:24.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3799 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- appearance1
- countenance1
- face1
First verses
- John 7:24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
- John 11:44And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
- Revelation 1:16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὄψις, ἡ,
genitive εως, Ionic dialect ιος, (ὄπωπα):
I objective, aspect, appearance of a person or thing, πατρὸς φίλου ὄψιν ἀτυχθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.468; εἰσορόων ὄ. τ᾽ ἀγαθὴν καὶ μῦθον ἀκούων 24.632, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1412 (_anapaest meter_); δῶρον, οὐ σπουδαῖον εἰς ὄ. [prev. author] “OC” 577)]; πλείω τὴν ὄ. παρείχετο made the appearance greater, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46; ἀξιόλογον ὄ. παρέχεται τὸ δένδρος “PCair.Zen.” 157.4 (3rd c.BC))]; ὥστε ὄ. καλὴν φαίνεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.9.9; εἰκάζεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς φανερᾶς ὄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.10; τὴν ὄ. τοῦ σώματος προορᾶν [prev. author] 7.44)]: the accusative is used absolutely, in appearance, τῷ ὄψιν ἐειδόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.15; στρογγύλος τὴν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 4; ἀστειότατον τὴν ὄ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 59)]; καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 127b)]; ἀπὸ τῆς ὄ. Ἑλληνικός to judge from his looks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; so ἐκ τῆς ὄ. “POxy.” 37 ii 3 (1st c.AD).)]
I.b countenance, face, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 905, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, 254b, etc.)]; διοίδησις ὅλης ὄ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus in “Rh.Mus.” 58.83, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.44, 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 9.7)]; οὐκ ἄξιον ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως οὔτε φιλεῖν οὔτε μισεῖν οὐδένα by the face or look merely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.19)]; ἀδήλως τῇ ὄ. πλασάμενος so that nothing could be learnt from his countenance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58; τίνι δεδούλωταί ποτ; ὄψει 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 541.2: _plural_, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 98.6, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 41.38.)]
I.c visual impression or image of an object, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 193c.)]
I.2 thing seen, sight, φοβερὰν ὄ. προσιδέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 48 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Supp.” 567 (Lyric poetry); ὁρῶ Πυλάδην.., ἡδεῖαν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 727, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887d, etc.)]; ἄλλην ὄ. οἰκοδομημάτων other architectural sights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136)]; τὰ δὲ χρήματα.. ἔστιν ὄψις mere outside show, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; πολλὴν ὄ. παρασχόντα ἔπειτα μηδὲν ὠφελῆσαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 44)]; of scenic representations, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1453b1, +others; ὁ τῆς ὄ. κόσμος [prev. work] 1449b33: _plural_, [prev. work] 1462a16.)]
I.3 vision, apparition, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.39, etc.; ὄ. ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ [prev. author] 3.30, +others; ὄ. ἐνυπνίου [prev. author] 8.54; ὄ. ὀνείρου [prev. author] 1.38; ὄ. ἔννυχοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 645, compare “Ag.” 425 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 413, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 72 (Lyric poetry), “IG” 42(1).121.11 (Epid., 4th c.BC), etc.)]
II subjective, power of sight or seeing, vision, ὄψει τινὰ ἰδεῖν, ἐσιδεῖν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.205, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 25.94, compare 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 55, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 11, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 4.10, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75, etc.)]; τῆς ἐμῆς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99, 147; τῆς ὄ. στερηθῆναι [prev. author] 9.93, etc.)]; οὐ τὸ δρασθὲν πιστότερον ὄψει λαβόντες ἢ τὸ ἀκουσθέν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38; οὐ καθορωμένους τῇ ὄ. νυκτὸς οὔσης [prev. work] 112.)]
II.b act of seeing or looking, ἡ εἰς τὸ ἄνω ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 396b)]; sense of sight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a6, “Mete.” 369b9)]; τὰ διὰ τῆς ὄ., of pleasures, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1118a3, etc.)]
II.c plural, organs of sight, eyes, ὄψεις μαρᾶναι to quench the orbs of sight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1328, compare “Ant.” 52, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 26; τὸ κάλλος πάντων εἷλκε τὰς ὄ. ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9)]; ἀσθενῖ (={-εῖ}) τὰς ὄ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“POxy.” 911.6 (3rd c.AD): so in _sing._, ἐστερήθη τῆς μιᾶς ὄ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.79.12)]: singular in collective sense, the eyes, [ἰχθῦς] λευκὴν ἔχοντες τὴν ὄ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 602a11, compare “PA” 656b29.)]
II.d in Medicine texts, iris of the eye, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.19)] (but eye-ball or eye, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prog.” 7 (_plural_)))]; also, pupil, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 23.)]
II.e of the visual rays which were supposed to proceed from the eyes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45c, 46b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 343a13, 370a19: in other places 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)] controverted this Empedoclean theory, [Refs (“Sens.” 437b14.)]
II.2 view, sight, ἀπικνέεσθαι ἐς ὄψιν τινί come into one's sight, i.e. presence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.136)]; εἰς ὄψιν τινὸς or τινὶ ἥκειν, μολεῖν, ἐλθεῖν, περᾶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 215, “Pers.” 183, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 173 (_anapaest meter_), “Or.” 513)]; καλέσαι τινὰ ἐς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106)]; ἀποφαίνειν τί τινι ἐς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.81; λυπηρὰς τῇ ὄ. ἀχθηδόνας προστιθέμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; ἐν ὄ. τοῦ δήμου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 12)]; κατ᾽ ὄψιν in person, ὡς ἐνετειλάμην σοι κατ᾽ ὄ. as I enjoined you when with you, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (POxy. 1154.4 (1st c.AD), compare 117.3 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II.2.b dignity, position, κατὰ τὴν ἐμὴν ὄ. καὶ ὑπόλημψιν [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 1.77.59 (6th c.AD))]; ἡ τῶν γονέων ἡμῶν προτεραία ὄ. [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 2 iii6 (6th c.AD).)]
genitive εως, Ionic dialect ιος, (ὄπωπα):
I objective, aspect, appearance of a person or thing, πατρὸς φίλου ὄψιν ἀτυχθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.468; εἰσορόων ὄ. τ᾽ ἀγαθὴν καὶ μῦθον ἀκούων 24.632, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1412 (_anapaest meter_); δῶρον, οὐ σπουδαῖον εἰς ὄ. [prev. author] “OC” 577)]; πλείω τὴν ὄ. παρείχετο made the appearance greater, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46; ἀξιόλογον ὄ. παρέχεται τὸ δένδρος “PCair.Zen.” 157.4 (3rd c.BC))]; ὥστε ὄ. καλὴν φαίνεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.9.9; εἰκάζεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς φανερᾶς ὄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.10; τὴν ὄ. τοῦ σώματος προορᾶν [prev. author] 7.44)]: the accusative is used absolutely, in appearance, τῷ ὄψιν ἐειδόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.15; στρογγύλος τὴν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 4; ἀστειότατον τὴν ὄ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 59)]; καλός τε κἀγαθὸς τὴν ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 127b)]; ἀπὸ τῆς ὄ. Ἑλληνικός to judge from his looks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; so ἐκ τῆς ὄ. “POxy.” 37 ii 3 (1st c.AD).)]
I.b countenance, face, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 905, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, 254b, etc.)]; διοίδησις ὅλης ὄ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus in “Rh.Mus.” 58.83, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.44, 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 9.7)]; οὐκ ἄξιον ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως οὔτε φιλεῖν οὔτε μισεῖν οὐδένα by the face or look merely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.19)]; ἀδήλως τῇ ὄ. πλασάμενος so that nothing could be learnt from his countenance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.58; τίνι δεδούλωταί ποτ; ὄψει 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 541.2: _plural_, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 98.6, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 41.38.)]
I.c visual impression or image of an object, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 193c.)]
I.2 thing seen, sight, φοβερὰν ὄ. προσιδέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 48 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Supp.” 567 (Lyric poetry); ὁρῶ Πυλάδην.., ἡδεῖαν ὄ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 727, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887d, etc.)]; ἄλλην ὄ. οἰκοδομημάτων other architectural sights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136)]; τὰ δὲ χρήματα.. ἔστιν ὄψις mere outside show, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 33.2; πολλὴν ὄ. παρασχόντα ἔπειτα μηδὲν ὠφελῆσαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 44)]; of scenic representations, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1453b1, +others; ὁ τῆς ὄ. κόσμος [prev. work] 1449b33: _plural_, [prev. work] 1462a16.)]
I.3 vision, apparition, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.39, etc.; ὄ. ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ [prev. author] 3.30, +others; ὄ. ἐνυπνίου [prev. author] 8.54; ὄ. ὀνείρου [prev. author] 1.38; ὄ. ἔννυχοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 645, compare “Ag.” 425 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 413, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 72 (Lyric poetry), “IG” 42(1).121.11 (Epid., 4th c.BC), etc.)]
II subjective, power of sight or seeing, vision, ὄψει τινὰ ἰδεῖν, ἐσιδεῖν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.205, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 25.94, compare 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 55, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 11, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 4.10, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75, etc.)]; τῆς ἐμῆς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99, 147; τῆς ὄ. στερηθῆναι [prev. author] 9.93, etc.)]; οὐ τὸ δρασθὲν πιστότερον ὄψει λαβόντες ἢ τὸ ἀκουσθέν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38; οὐ καθορωμένους τῇ ὄ. νυκτὸς οὔσης [prev. work] 112.)]
II.b act of seeing or looking, ἡ εἰς τὸ ἄνω ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 396b)]; sense of sight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a6, “Mete.” 369b9)]; τὰ διὰ τῆς ὄ., of pleasures, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1118a3, etc.)]
II.c plural, organs of sight, eyes, ὄψεις μαρᾶναι to quench the orbs of sight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1328, compare “Ant.” 52, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 26; τὸ κάλλος πάντων εἷλκε τὰς ὄ. ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9)]; ἀσθενῖ (={-εῖ}) τὰς ὄ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“POxy.” 911.6 (3rd c.AD): so in _sing._, ἐστερήθη τῆς μιᾶς ὄ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.79.12)]: singular in collective sense, the eyes, [ἰχθῦς] λευκὴν ἔχοντες τὴν ὄ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 602a11, compare “PA” 656b29.)]
II.d in Medicine texts, iris of the eye, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.19)] (but eye-ball or eye, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prog.” 7 (_plural_)))]; also, pupil, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 23.)]
II.e of the visual rays which were supposed to proceed from the eyes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45c, 46b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 343a13, 370a19: in other places 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)] controverted this Empedoclean theory, [Refs (“Sens.” 437b14.)]
II.2 view, sight, ἀπικνέεσθαι ἐς ὄψιν τινί come into one's sight, i.e. presence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.136)]; εἰς ὄψιν τινὸς or τινὶ ἥκειν, μολεῖν, ἐλθεῖν, περᾶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 215, “Pers.” 183, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 173 (_anapaest meter_), “Or.” 513)]; καλέσαι τινὰ ἐς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106)]; ἀποφαίνειν τί τινι ἐς ὄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.81; λυπηρὰς τῇ ὄ. ἀχθηδόνας προστιθέμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; ἐν ὄ. τοῦ δήμου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 12)]; κατ᾽ ὄψιν in person, ὡς ἐνετειλάμην σοι κατ᾽ ὄ. as I enjoined you when with you, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (POxy. 1154.4 (1st c.AD), compare 117.3 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II.2.b dignity, position, κατὰ τὴν ἐμὴν ὄ. καὶ ὑπόλημψιν [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 1.77.59 (6th c.AD))]; ἡ τῶν γονέων ἡμῶν προτεραία ὄ. [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 2 iii6 (6th c.AD).)]