Greek verb · G1689
ἐμβλέπω
emblepoem-blep'-o
to look into/upon
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: emblépō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1689is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1689
to look on, i.e. (relatively) to observe fixedly, or (absolutely) to discern clearly
The King James renders it: behold, gaze up, look upon, (could) see.
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
emblepo is rendered "to look into/upon". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Matthew 6:26ἐμβλέψατε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having looked4
- having looked at2
- do look1
- Having looked on1
- he was seeing well1
- I was seeing1
- looked at1
- looking1
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.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- ἐμβλέψας6
- ἐμβλέποντες1
- ἐμβλέψασα1
- ἐμβλέψατε1
- ἐνέβλεπεν1
- ἐνέβλεπον1
- ἐνέβλεψεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular6V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural1V-AAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AAP-NSF
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-IAI-1S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PAP-NPM
Matthew
two uses
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- ἐμβλέψατεemblepsateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do look
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having looked on
Mark
four uses
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.
- ἐνέβλεπενeneblepenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was seeing well
Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having looked
and saw him warming himself there. She looked at Peter and said, “You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.”
- ἐμβλέψασαemblepsasaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having looked
Luke
two uses
But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked
And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”
- ἐνέβλεψενeneblepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: looked at
John
two uses
When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked at
Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
- ἐμβλέψαςemblepsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having looked at
Acts
two uses
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”
- ἐμβλέποντεςemblepontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: looking
Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.
- ἐνέβλεπονenebleponverb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was seeing
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.