noun · feminine
optasias
Strong’sG3701
a vision, supernatural appearance
stem optasi-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
† ὀπτασία, -ας, ἡ
(< ὀπτάζομαι, Nu 14:14* = ὀπτάνομαι), later form of ὄψις, [in LXX: Ma 3:2 (ראה ni.), Da TH 9:23 10:1, 7, 8, 16 (מַרְאֶה, מַרְאָה; LXX, ὅραμα, -σις), Es 4:7, Si 43:2, 16*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3701 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidop-tas-ee'-ah
visuality, i.e. (concretely) an apparition
Fromfrom a presumed derivative of G3700;
King Jamesvision.
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
A, (ὀπτάζομαι) vision, Refs 4th c.BC+; see at {ὁπλισία}), LXX+NT; simply, appearance, LXX
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 | optasias | optasiais |
| object accusative | optasian2×ὀπτασίαν | optasiain1×ὀπτασίας |
| direct address vocative | optasiar | optasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | optasiau | optasiaiu |
| to, for dative | optasia1×ὀπτασίᾳ | optasiai |
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
optasia 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
optasian“vision”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 1:22… dunote lalara autoi, kai epignōskala hoti optasian horatē en to nao; kai autos …… they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making …
Luke 24:23… tem sōmem autou erchala legarōntais kai optasian angeloiu horarē, hois legalō auton zōarō.… told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus …
optasia“vision”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 26:19… Agrippor, ouk genema apeithos ta ourania optasia,… was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
optasiain“visions”objectaccusative plural1×
2 Corinthians 12:1… ouk sumferarōntem men, erchemi de eis optasiain kai apokalupsiain kuriou.… gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.