- Transliteration: Optanomai

- Phonetic: op-tan'-om-ahee

- Definition:

1. to look at, behold

2. to allow one's self to be seen, to appear

- Origin: a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) optomai op'-tom-ahee, which is used for it in certain tenses, and both as alternate of G3708" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3708

- TDNT entry: 10:15,7

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: the first a (middle voice) prolonged form of the second (primary) which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternates of G3708" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3708; to gaze (that is with wide open eyes as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991" class="dictionary-topic-link">G991 which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1492 which expresses merely mechanical passive or casual vision; while G2300" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2300 and still more emphatically its intensive G2334" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2334 signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4648 a watching from a distance): - appear look see shew self.