Quick Definition
I face, resist
Strong's Definition
to face
Derivation: from a compound of G473 (ἀντί) and G3788 (ὀφθαλμός);
KJV Usage: bear up into
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀντοφθαλμέω, ἀντοφθάλμω; (ἀντοφθαλμος looking in the eye)
1. properly, to look against or straight at.
2. metaphorically, to bear up against, withstand: τῷ ἀνέμῳ, of a ship, (cf. our 'look the wind in the eye,' 'face' (R. V.) the wind): Act_27:15. (Wis_12:14; often in Polybius; in ecclesiastical writings.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀντοφθαλμέω antophthalmeō 1x
pr. to look in the face, met. a nautical term, to bear up against the wind, Act_27:15
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**† ἀντοφθαλμέω , -ῶ
(ἀντί , ὀφθαλμός ),
[in LXX : Wis_12:14 * ;] to look in the face, look straight at ( Polyb .). Metaph ., to face , withstand (Wis, l.c ., Polyb .): c . dat ., ἀ . τ . ἀνέμῳ , as nautical term, to beat up against the wind ( v. DB , ext., 366 f .; MM , VGT , s.v. ): Act_27:15 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀντοφθαλμέω [page 49]
Verbum elegantius = resistere, so Blass on Act_6:11 , where the word is found in his β -text, μὴ δυνάμενοι οὗν ἀντοφθαλμεῖν (ἀντιλέγειν ) τῇ ἀληθείᾳ : cf. the Polybian passage cited by Schweighδuser (with a wrong reference) in Lex Polyb. s.v. , μὴ δύνασθαι τοῖς χρήμασιν ἀντοφθαλμεῖν . In the ordinary text of the NT ἀ . occurs only in Act_27:15 of a vessel s not being able to face the wind : cf. Wis_12:14 , of a king or prince who cannot look God in the face (ἀντοφθαλμῆσαί σοι ), and Apoc. Baruch 7 (p. 89, ed. James) οὗ τὴν θέαν οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἀντοφθαλμῆσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν . For a similar usage see Barnab. 5:10, and cf. Clem. Rom. 34 of an idle workman ὁ νωθρὸς καὶ παρειμένος οὐκ ἀντοφθαλμεῖ τῷ ἐργοπαρέκτῃ αὐτοῦ , does not look his employer in the face.
The word was read in the printed text of P Par 63 .43 , but is removed by Mahaffy (P Petr III. p. 23), who reads ἀντ᾽ ὀφθαλμ [ῶ ]ν [θεμένου ]ς , keeping it before your eyes. The parallel compound ἐ [π ]οφθαλμήσασα occurs in P Thιad 19 .9 (iv/A.D.) ayant jetι un œil d envie sur le troupeau (Ed.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀντοφθαλμέω [Etym: ὀφθαλμός] "to meet face to face, to face", τινί Polyb. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀντοφθαλμέω, -ῶ
(ἀντί, ὀφθαλμός), [in LXX: Wis.12:14 * ;]
to look in the face, look straight at (Polyb.). Metaphorical, to face, withstand (Wis, l.with, Polyb.): with dative, ἀ. τ. ἀνέμῳ, as nautical term, to beat up against the wind (see DB, ext., 366 f.; MM, VGT, see word): Act.27:15.†
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