Original Word: ἀντοφθαλμέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: antophthalmeó
Phonetic Spelling: (ant-of-thal-meh'-o)
Definition: to look in the face, look straight at
Usage: I face (lit: I present my eye to), resist, withstand; as nautical term: I bear up against the wind.Word Origin
from anti and ophthalmos
Definition
to look in the face, look straight at
NASB Translation
face (1).

STRONGS NT 503: ἀντοφθαλμέω

ἀντοφθαλμέω, ἀντοφθάλμω; (ἀντοφθαλμος looking in the eye)

1. properly, to look against or straight at.

2. metaphorically, to bear up against, withstand: τῷ ἀνέμῳ, of a ship, (cf. our 'look the wind in the eye,' 'face' (R. V.) the wind): Acts 27:15. (Wis. 12:14; often in Polybius; in ecclesiastical writings.)

to look directly at, to face

From a compound of anti and ophthalmos; to face -- bear up into.

see GREEK anti

see GREEK ophthalmos

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