ἀναβλέπω
anablépō · G308 · Greek · 25 occurrences
Meanings
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to look up
To direct one’s vision upward
ExamplesMatthew 14:19 And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up toward heaven. He blessed the food and breaking the loaves, He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Mark 6:41 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He gave them to the disciples again and again to set before them; and He divided the two fish among them all.
Mark 7:34 and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”
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to gain sight, to be able to see, to regain one’s sight, gaining of sight
To become able to see, whether for the first time or again
ExamplesMatthew 11:5 those who are BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT and those who limp walk, those with leprosy are cleansed and those who are deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.
Matthew 20:34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.
Mark 8:24 And he looked up and said, “I see people, for I see them like trees, walking around.”
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
25 occurrences in 8 groups
- Not stated (participle) 8
- Not stated: he, she or it 6
- Not stated: I 3
- Not stated: you (one person) 3
- τυφλόςblind 2
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- πλούσιοςrich, wealthy 1
- σπεύδωto hasten to 1
- ἀποκυλίωto cause to roll away 1
- βλέπωto see 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰςto+ οὐρανόςheaven, sky 4
- εἰςto+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
- πρόςto, toward, with+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With adverbsAdverbs
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- εὐθέωςimmediately, right away, then 1
- παραχρῆμαimmediately, at once 1
- πῶςhow? by what means? 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἔπωto say 4
- ἐρωτάωto ask, to ask for 1
- πιστεύωto believe 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- נָשָׂא nâsâʼ · H5375 · to become high, to be lifted up, to rise
- ἀναβλέπω (anablépō, G308) ἀναβλέπω specifically denotes the physical act of looking upward or recovering sight, while נָשָׂא (nâsâʼ, H5375) נָשָׂא has a broader semantic range including lifting/bearing; the connection arises where נָשָׂא means 'to lift (one's eyes/face)' in literal upward-looking contexts, which Greek renders with the more specialized ἀναβλέπω.
- נָבַט nâbaṭ · H5027 · to look, to see, to gaze
- נָבַט (nâbaṭ, H5027) denotes general visual attention or regard (including looking down from a superior position), while ἀναβλέπω (anablépō, G308) specifically emphasizes upward sight or recovery of sight; the equivalence holds where LXX translators rendered Hebrew visual-regard contexts with Greek 'look up' terminology, though the directionality and recovery-of-sight implications are narrower in the Greek term.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To look up24.10
- In Matthew 14:19, before multiplying the loaves, Jesus “took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up (anablépsas) toward heaven,” describing the physical upward direction of His gaze.
- To gain sight, to be able to see, to regain one’s sight, gaining of sight24.42
- In Matthew 20:34, Jesus touched the eyes of two blind men, and “immediately they regained their sight (anéblepsan) and followed Him,” describing the restoration of their ability to see.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἀνέβλεψα; (from Herodotus down); 1. to look up: Mk 8:24 ( R G L) ; Lk 19:5; Lk…
1. to look up: Mk 8:24 ( R G L) ; Lk 19:5; Lk 21:1; Acts 22:13; εἰς τινα, ibid.; εἰς τόν οὐρανόν, Mt 14:19; Mk 6:41; Mk 7:34 (Plato, Axioch., p. 370b.; Xenophon, Cyril 8, 4, 9).
2. to recover (lost) sight: Mt 11:5; Mt 20:34; Lk 18:41ff, etc. ((Herodotus 2, 111;) Plato, Phaedrus, p. 234 b. παραχρῆμα ἀνέβλεψε Aristophanes Plutarch, 126); used somewhat loosely also of the man blind from birth who was cured by Christ, Jn 9:11 (12) (cf. Meyer at the passage), 17f (Pausanias, 4, 12, 7 (10) συνέβη τόν Ὀφιονέα... τόν ἐκ γενετῆς τυφλόν αναβλέψαι). Cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iii., p. 7f.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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