G3700 - ὀπτάνομαι
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Strong's Concordance

No 3700 Original Word ὀπτάνομαι
Transliteration optanomai Phonetic Spelling op-tan'-om-ahee
Definitions
  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; to gaze (that is, with wide open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G0991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while G2300, and still more emphatically its intensive G2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 a watching from a distance):appear, look, see, shew self.