ὈΦΘΗΝΑΙ, ὀφθηναι
OPHTHĒNAI, ophthēnai
Sounds Like: op-THEH-nai
Translations: to be seen, to appear, to show oneself
From the root: ΟΠΤΑΝΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is an aorist passive infinitive form of the verb 'optanomai', meaning 'to be seen' or 'to appear'. It describes an action that happened in the past, viewed as a single event, and the subject of the action is being acted upon (passive voice). As an infinitive, it functions like a verbal noun and can be used to complete the meaning of another verb, often indicating purpose or result, such as 'to go to be seen' or 'it was caused to appear'.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3700 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 2:5
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 56:4
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 32:157
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 34:24
- Deuteronomy — 31:11
- Judges — 13:21
- 2 Samuel — 17:17
- 1 Kings — 18:2
- Psalms — 16:15
- Isaiah — 1:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΠΤΑΝΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ὈΠΤΑ — to be seen, to appear, to show oneself
- ὈΦΘΗΣΟΜΑΙ — I will appear, I will be seen
- ὈΦΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be seen, they will appear
- ΟΠΤΑΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ — appearing, being seen, being visible, being shown, being revealed
- ὨΠΤΑΝΟΝΤΟ — they were seen, they appeared
- ΩΦΘΗΣΑΝ — they were seen, they appeared, they showed themselves
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