Greek noun (feminine) · G3701
ὀπτασία
optasiaop-tas-ee'-ah
an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with).; a vision
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: optasía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3701is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3701
visuality, i.e. (concretely) an apparition
The King James renders it: vision.
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
optasia is rendered "an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with).; a vision". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:22When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained speechless.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained speechless.
Luke 1:22ὀπτασίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with)., and a vision.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 1:22When he came out and was unable to speak to them… |
| a visionLuk.1:22 24:23, Act.26:19, 2Co.12:1 (Da, ll. with, also in MGr.).† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:22When he came out and was unable to speak to them… |
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀπτάνομαι | optanomai | to appear | Uses54 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ὀπτασίαν2
- ὀπτασίᾳ1
- ὀπτασίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Luke
two uses
When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained speechless.
- ὀπτασίανoptasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a vision
but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
- ὀπτασίανoptasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a vision
Acts
one use
So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
- ὀπτασίᾳoptasianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: vision
2 Corinthians
one use
I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
- ὀπτασίαςoptasiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: visions
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.