Word study
View
5 Hebrew and 6 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: view, viewed, views. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “view” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- עַיִן ayineyetranslated this way 4 times of its 764 uses · Strong’s H5869Noun · Translated: eyes 383, sight 186, eye 38, presence 13Full study and all 731 verses →
Genesis 30:41 Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
- רָאָה rââhseetranslated this way 3 times of its 1,266 uses · Strong’s H7200Verb · Translated: see 354, saw 285, seen 124, look 45Full study and all 1,181 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- מָעַט mâaṭbe or become small, diminished, fewtranslated this way 1 time of its 22 uses · Strong’s H4591Verb · Translated: less 3, decrease 3, diminish 2, decreased 2Full study and all 21 verses →
Nehemiah 9:32 So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 1 time of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
- עַל alheighttranslated this way 1 time of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition · Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- φρονέω phronéōI think, judge, observetranslated this way 3 times of its 22 uses · Strong’s G5426Verb · Translated: mind 4, think 2Full study and all 19 verses →
Acts 28:22 But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”
Galatians 5:10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
- φανερῶς phanerōsclearly, openlytranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G5320Adverb · Translated: plain view 1, publicly 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Mark 1:45 But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.
- πρόσωπον prósōponthe face, countenance, surfacetranslated this way 1 time of its 56 uses · Strong’s G4383Noun · Translated: face 25, presence 7, faces 6, facedown 4Full study and all 52 verses →
2 Corinthians 8:24 In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.
- βλέπω blépōI look, seetranslated this way 1 time of its 128 uses · Strong’s G991Verb · Translated: see 53, seeing 10, saw 8, sees 6Full study and all 117 verses →
Revelation 11:9 For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
- ἐξουθενέω exouthenéōI ignore, despisetranslated this way 1 time of its 11 uses · Strong’s G1848Verb · Translated: belittle 2Full study and all 11 verses →
Luke 18:9 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
- ὡς hōsas, like as, how, while, so thattranslated this way 1 time of its 438 uses · Strong’s G5613Adverb · Translated: as 161, like 124, when 31, just as 15Full study and all 396 verses →
2 Corinthians 6:8 through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.