θεάομαι, -ὥμαι : 1 aor. ἐθεασάμην ; pf. τεθέαμαι; 1 aor. pass. ἐθεάθην in pass. sense (Mt. νἱ. 1; xxiii. δ; Mk xvi. 11; Thue. 3, 38, 3; ef. Kriiger § 40 5. v.; [but Kriiger himself now reads δρασθέν in Thue. 1. c¢.; see Veitch s. v.; W. § 38,7 ¢.; B. 52 (46)]); depon. verb; (fr. θέα, PAOMAT, with which θαῦμα is connected, q. v-) ; to behold, look upon, view attentively, contemplate, (in Grk. writ. often used of public shows; οἵ. θέα, θέαμα, θέαtpov, θεατρίζω, ete. [see below ]) : ri, Mt. xi. 7; Lk. vii. 24; Jn. iv. 35; xi. 45; of august things and persons that are looked on with admiration: τί, Jn. i. 14, 832; 1 Jn. i. 1; Acts xxii. 9, (2 Mace. iii. 36); τινά, with a ptep., Mk. xvi. 14; Acts i. 11; foll. by ὅτι, 1 Jn. iv. 14; θεαθῆναι ὑπό τινος, Mk. xvi. 11; πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι αὐτοῖς, in order to make a show to them, Mt. vi. 1; xxiii. 5; to view, take a view of: τί, Lk. xxiii. 55; twa, Mt. xxii.11; in the sense of visiting, meeting with a person, Ro. xv. 24 (2 Chr. xxii. 6; Joseph. antt. 16, 1,2); to learn by looking: foll. by ὅτι, Acts viii. 18 Ree.; to see with the eyes, 1 Jn. iv. 12; i.q. (Lat. conspicio) to perceive: τινά, Jn. viii. 10 RG; Acts xxi. 27; foll. by acc. with ptep., Lk. v. 27 {not Lmrg.]; Jn. i. 38; foll. by ὅτι, Jn. vi. δ." Cf. O. F. Fritzsche, in Fritzschiorum Opusce. p. 295 sqq. [Ace. to Schmidt, Syn. i. ch. 11, θεᾶσθαι in its earlier classic use denotes often a wondering regard, (cf. even in Strabo 14, 5, τὰ ἑπτὰ θεάματα i.q. θαύματα). This specific shade of meaning, however, gradually faded out, and left the more general signification of such a looking as seeks merely the satisfaction of the sense of sight. Cf. θεωρέω.]

θεάομαι theaomai 22x

to gaze upon, Mt. 6:1; 23:5; Lk. 7:24; to see, discern with the eyes, Mk. 16:11, 14; Lk. 5:27; Jn. 1:14, 32, 38; to see, visit, Rom. 15:24

θεάομαι, -ῶμαι,

[in LXX: II Ch 22:6 (ראה), To 2:2 13:6, 14, Jth 15:8, II Mac 2:4 3:36, III Mac 5:47*;]

to behold, look upon, contemplate, view (in early writers with a sense of wondering), in NT apparently always in literal, physical sense of "careful and deliberate vision which interprets . . . its object": c. acc. rei, Mt 11:7, Lk 7:24 23:55, Jo 1:14, 32 4:35 11:45, Ac 22:9, I Jo 1:1; c. acc. pers., Mt 22:11, Ac 21:27, Ro 15:24, I Jo 4:12; c. ptcp., Mk 16:[14], Lk 5:27, Jo 1:38, Ac 1:11; seq. ὅτι, Jo 6:5, I Jo 4:14; pass., Mt 6:1 23:5, Mk 16:[11].†

SYN.: v.s. θεωρέω.

θεάομαι. The deeper meaning, involving moral and spiritual perception, which underlies the use of this verb in such a passage as Jn 115, may be illustrated from P Par 518 (B.c. 160), where the recipient of a “‘vision”’ in the temple of Serapis at Memphis writes—rtd ὅραμα τοῦτο τεθήαμαι : cf. Syll 324° (i/B.c.) αἰφνίδιον σ(υ)μφορὰν θεασάμενος. The thought of attentive, careful regard, as in Mt 117, appears in the account of the death of a slave from leaning out of a bed-chamber (Ὁ) θεάσασϑαι τὰς [κρο]ταλιστρίδας, ‘to behold the castanet-players” (P Oxy III. 475?4—a.p. 182). But in other passages the verb cannot denote more than ordinary seeing with the eyes, as when a woman writes to her mother — ἀσπάζομαί oe, μῆτερ, διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων A.D.), or as when a woman who has quarrelled with her husband and has appealed to the tribunal, regrets that she has had anything to do with him from the first—el@e μὴ τεθέαμαι αὐτόν, εἴθε μὴ συνήφθ[ην αἸὐτῷ ἐξ ἀρχῆς (PSI 1. 41®—iv/a.p.). So in one of the scribblings on the walls of the royal tombs at Thebes a visitor writes . . . θεασαμένη . . . (Pretsigke 1800). It may be noted that the Attic θεάομαι is modelled upon θέα, “sight ’’: the Ionic θηέομαι points to an original *@aFéopar.

θεάομαι (theaomai) — to look at. θεάομαι, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect θηέομαι (see. below), Doric dialect θᾱέομαι, Θάομαι (which see), imperative θεῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; optative θηοῖο (for Attic dialect θεῷο) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle θηεύμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+]imperfect ἐθηεῖτο, ἐθηεῦντο, [Refs]; Epic dialect θηεῖτο [Refs 8th c.BC+] poetical cited in [Refs 1st c.BC+]future θεάσομαι [ᾱ], Ionic dialect -ήσομαι: aorist ἐθεᾱσάμην, Epic dialect optative θηήσαιο, θηήσαιτο, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐθηήσαντο [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Ionic dialect infinitive θεήσασθαι (variant{θεάσ-}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Attic dialect perfect τεθέαμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+] is found in θησαίατ᾽ [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, θηεῦντο μέγα ἔργον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐθεᾶτο.. τὴν θέσιν τῆς πόλεως.., ὡς ἔχοι reconnoitred it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; do you see? [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. of the mind, contemplate, τὸ ἀληθές [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. b see clearly, ἵν᾽ ἴδητε καὶ θεάσησθε ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. view as spectators, especially in the theatre, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ θεώμενοι the spectators, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also, onlookers, bystanders, [Refs 5th c.BC+] to be spectators of the war, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. θ. τὸ στράτευμα to review it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. active θεάω, late, Baillet Tombeaux des rois à Thèbes [Refs 4th c.AD+]aorist ἐθεάθην in passive sense, Ps. -Callisth.[NT+1st c.AD+]: present θεῶνται [Refs 2nd c.AD+]