θεάομαι

qeavomai qeavomai,
qewmai: 1 aorist
ejqeasavmhn; perfect
teqevamai; 1 aorist passive
ejqeaqhn in passive sense (; ; ; Thucydides 3, 38, 3; cf. Kr?ger, sec. 40, under the word; (but Kr?ger himself now reads
drasqen in Thucydides, the passage cited; see Veitch, under the word; Winer's Grammar, sec. 38, 7 c.; Buttmann, 52 (46))); deponent verb; (from
qeav,
QAOMAI, with which
qau'ma is connected, which see); to behold, look upon, view attentively, contemplate, (in Greek writings often used of public shows; cf.
qeav,
qevama,
qevatron,
qeatrivzw, etc. (see below)):
tiv, ; ; ; ; of august things and persons that are looked on with admiration:
tiv, ,; ; ();
tina, with a participle, : ; followed by
o{ti, ;
qeaqh'nai
uJpov
tivno", ;
prov"
tov
qeaqh'nai
aujtoi'", in order to make a show to them, ; ; to view, take a view of:
tiv, ;
tina, ; in the sense of visiting, meeting with a person, (; Josephus, Antiquities 16, 1, 2); to learn by looking: followed by
o{ti, Rec.; to see with the eyes, ; equivalent to (Latin conspicio) to perceive:
tina, R G; ; followed by an accusative with participle, (not L marginal reading); ; followed by
o{ti, .*Cf. O. F. Fritzsche, in Fritzschiorum Opuscc., p. 295ff (According to Schmidt, Syn., i., chapter 11,
qevasqai in its earlier classic use denotes often a wondering regard (cf. even in Strabo 14, 5,
tav
eJptav
qevmata equivalent to
qaumata). This specific shade of meaning, however, gradually faded out, and left the more general signification of such a looking as seeks merely the satisfaction of the sense of sight. Cf.
qewrevw.)