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Greek verb · G1227

διαβλέπω

diablepodee-ab-lep'-o

to took straight before one; to see clearly

3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: diablépō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1227is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1227

to look through, i.e. recover full vision

The King James renders it: see clearly.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

diablepo is rendered "to took straight before one; to see clearly". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to took straight before one".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:5διαβλέψεις

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's three uses is in Matthew.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to took straight before one, and to see clearly.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to took straight before oneTagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye…
to see clearlyTagged as
  • you will see clearly2
  • look1
WhereIsaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

διάβολοςdiabolosdevilish/the DevilUses37
διαβαίνωdiabainoto crossUses3
διαβεβαιόομαιdiabebaioomaito insistUses2
διαβάλλωdiaballoto accuseUses1

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • διαβλέψεις2
  • διέβλεψεν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singular2V-FAI-2S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S

Matthew

one use
  • You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    Matthew 7:5

    • διαβλέψειςdiablepseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will see clearly

Mark

one use
  • Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

    Mark 8:25

    • διέβλεψενdieblepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: look

Luke

one use
  • How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    Luke 6:42

    • διαβλέψειςdiablepseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will see clearly

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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