ἀντοφθαλμέω, -ὦὥ ; (ἀντόφθαλμος looking in the eye) ; 1. prop. to look against or straight at. 2. metaph. to bear up against, withstand : τῷ ἀνέμῳ, of a ship, [ef. our ‘look the wind in the eye,’ ‘face’ (R. V.) the wind]: Acts xxvil.15. (Sap. xii. 14; often in Polyb.; in eccl. writ.)

ἀντοφθαλμέω antophthalmeō 1x

pr. to look in the face, met. a nautical term, to bear up against the wind, Acts 27:15*

**† ἀντοφθαλμέω, -ῶ

(ἀντί, ὀφθαλμός), [in LXX: Wi 12:14*;]

to look in the face, look straight at (Polyb.). Metaph., to face, withstand (Wi 12:14, Polyb.): c. dat., ἀ. τ. ἀνέμῳ, as nautical term, to beat up against the wind (v. DB, ext., 366 f.; MM, VGT, s.v.): Ac 27:15.†

ἀντοφθαλμέω. ““Verbum elegantius = resistere,” so Blass on Ac 631, where the word is: found in his ‘‘ B-text,” μὴ δυνάμενοι οὖν ἀντοφθαλμεῖν (ἀντιλέγειν) τῇ ἀληθείᾳ : cf. the Polybian passage cited by Schweighauser (with a wrong reference) in Lex Polyb. s.v., μὴ ϑύνασθαι τοῖς χρήμασιν ἀντοφθαλμεῖν. In the ordinary text of the NT ἀ. occurs only in Ac 27 of a vessel’s not being able to ‘‘face” the wind: cf. Wisd 12%, of a king or prince who cannot ‘‘look God in the face” (ἀντοφθαλμῆσαί σοι), and Afoc. Baruch 7 (p. 89, ed. James) οὗ τὴν θέαν οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἀντοφθαλμῆσαι Kal ἰδεῖν. For a similar usage see Barnab. 51°, and cf. Clem. Rom. 34 of an idle workman—6 νωθρὸς Kal 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 634°, but is removed by Mahaffy (P Petr III. p. 23), who reads avr’ ὀφθαλμ[ῶ]ν [θεμένου]ς, ““ keeping it before your eyes.” The parallel compound ἐ[π]οφθαλμήσασα occurs in P Théad τοῦ (iv/A.D.) ‘ayant jeté un ceil d’envie sur le troupeau” (Ed.).

ἀντοφθαλμέω (antophthalmeō) — to face. ἀντοφθαλμ-έω, look in the face, meet face to face, ἀ. κατὰ πρόσωπον [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: hence, defy, withstand, τινί and πρός τινα, [LXX]; ἀ τῷ ἀνέμῳ, of a ship, [NT+3rd c.AD+]