noun · feminine
horasias
Strong’sG3706
a sight, vision, appearance
stem horasi-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὅρασις, -εως, ἡ
(ὁράω), [in LXX chiefly for מַרְאֶה, חָזוֹן and cognate forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3706 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhor'-as-is
the act of gazing, i.e. (externally) an aspect or (internally) an inspired appearance
Fromfrom G3708;
King Jamessight, vision.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
seeing, the act of sight, Refs 4th c.BC+; distinguished as the ἐνέργεια or act from ὄψις (the sense or faculty), Refs 4th c.BC+; but, power of sight, Refs
2 plural, eyes, τὰς ὁ. ἐκκόπτειν Refs 3rd c.BC+
II a vision, LXX+NT
III appearance, ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | horasias | horasiais |
| object accusative | horasian | horasiain1×ὁράσεις |
| direct address vocative | horasiar | horasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | horasiau | horasiaiu |
| to, for dative | horasia3×ὁράσει | horasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
horasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
horasia“appearance”to, fordative singular3×
Revelation 4:3“appearance”kai tos kathorōntos homoios horasia litho iaspia kai sardie, kai irias …The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed …
Revelation 4:3“appearance”… kai irias kuklothen tou thronou homoios horasia smaragdino.… and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
Revelation 9:17… houtōs horama toin hippoin en ta horasia kai toin kathorōntoin epi autoiu, echarōntoin …… the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had …
horasiain“visions”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 2:17… thugatrais vu, kai tois neaniskois vu horasiain horeli, kai tois presbuterois vu enupniei …… prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.