Greek noun (feminine) · G3799
ὄψις
opsisop'-sis
the act of seeing, the sense of sight.; face, countenance; appearance
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ópsis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3799is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3799
properly, sight (the act), i.e. (by implication) the visage, an external show
The King James renders it: appearance, countenance, face.
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
opsis is rendered "the act of seeing, the sense of sight.; face, countenance; appearance". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "the act of seeing, the sense of sight.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
John 7:24ὄψιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in John.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: the act of seeing, the sense of sight., and face, countenance, and appearance.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the act of seeing, the sense of sight. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJohn 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” |
| face, countenanceJhn.11:44, Rev.1:16. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 11:44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen… |
| appearanceκατ᾽ ὄ. κρίνειν (see MM, xviii), Jhn.7:24.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” |
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 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
- ὄψις2
- ὄψιν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
John
two uses
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
- ὄψινopsinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: appearance
The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
- ὄψιςopsisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: face
Revelation
one use
He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
- ὄψιςopsisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: face
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.