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ἀνάβλεψις

anáblepsis · G309 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. 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

    Examples

    Luke 4:18 “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO BRING GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,

How it’s used

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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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To gain sight, to be able to see, to regain one’s sight, gaining of sight24.42
In Luke 4:18, Jesus reads that the Spirit anointed Him to proclaim “recovery of sight (anáblepsin) to the blind,” naming the restoration of a blind person's ability to see.
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βλέπω blépō · G991 · to see, to become aware of, to notice · 133×ἀναβλέπω anablépō · G308 · to look up, to gain sight, to be able to see · 25×ἐμβλέπω emblépō · G1689 · to look straight at, to look directly at, to think about · 11×περιβλέπω periblépō · G4017 · to look around, to glance around · 7×διαβλέπω diablépō · G1227 · to see clearly, to be able to distinguish clearly · 3×ἐπιβλέπω epiblépō · G1914 · to notice especially, to take notice of, to consider · 3×ἀνάβλεψιςanáblepsis · G309ἀποβλέπω apoblépō · G578 · to think about, to fix one’s attention on · 1×βλέμμα blémma · G990 · what is seen · 1×προβλέπω problépō · G4265 · to provide for, to choose beforehand, to select in advance · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (εως, ἡ, recovery of sight: Lk 4:18 (19) (the Sept. Isa 61:1). (Aristotle.)
(εως, ἡ, recovery of sight: Lk 4:18 (19) (the Sept. Isa 61:1). (Aristotle.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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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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