Quick Definition
αὐτόπτης, ου, ὁ n.m. an eye-witness
Strong's Definition
from 846 and 3700; self-seeing, i.e. an eye-witness
KJV Usage: eye-witness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | αὐτός + ὄψομαι
24.46 · Sensory Events and States · See
eyewitness, personal witness one who has personally seen an event and thus has personal knowledge and can be expected to attest to the occurrence of such an event
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
αὐτόπτης, -ov, 6, (αὐτός, ΟΠΤΩῚ, seeing with one’s own eyes, an eye-witness, (cf. αὐτήκοος one who has himself heard a thing): Lk.i. 2. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
αὐτόπτης autoptēs 1x
an eye-witness, Lk. 1:2*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* αὐτόπτης, -ου, ὁ, an eye-witness: Lk 1:2.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
αὐτόπτης. In P Oxy VIII. 11548 (late i/A.D.) a man, who was perhaps absent on military service, writes to his sister not to be anxious, αὐτόπτης yap εἰμι τῶν τόπων καὶ οὐκ εἰμὶ ξέν οἷς τῶν ἐνθάδε, ‘for 1 am personally acquainted with these places and am not a stranger here ”’ (Edd.). Note Vettius Valens, p. 260%, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ λόγῳ καλῷ χρησάμενος, πολλὰ δὲ καμὼν καὶ παθὼν αὐτόπτης γενόμενος τῶν πραγμάτων δοκιμάσας συνέγραψα. The spell for procuring the visible appearance of the god invoked is introduced in the magical P Lond 122® (iv/a.D.) (=I. p. 119) by the words ἐὰν θέλῃς , I, QUTOS 94,
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
αὐτόπτης (autoptēs) — eyewitness. αὐτόπτ-ης, ου, ὁ, seeing oneself, eyewitness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:— feminine αὐτόπτις, ἡ, [Refs 8th c.BC+]