- ἐμβλέπω
- ἐμβλέπω impf. ἐνέβλεπον; 1 aor. ἐνέβλεψα; fut. mid. ἐμβλέψομαι LXX (Soph. et al.; pap, LXX, TestSol 5:2 P; JosAs 4:11 cod. A for ἀνέβλεψε; Philo, Joseph.; Just., A I, 15, 1 [for βλέπων Mt 5:28]).① to look at someth. directly and therefore intently, look at, gaze on τινί (Pla., Rep. 10, 608d; Polyb. 15, 28, 3; Sir 42:12; Jos., Bell. 3, 385; 7, 341) someone Mk 10:21, 27; 14:67; Lk 20:17; 22:61; J 1:36, 42; Hv 3, 8, 2 (most of these pass. read: ἐμβλέψας αὐτῷ or αὐτοῖς λέγει or εἶπεν; cp. X., Cyr. 1, 3, 2 ἐμβλέπων αὐτῷ ἔλεγεν; Syntipas p. 106, 10). ἔμβλεπε τοῖς λοιποῖς look at the rest Hs 9, 2, 7. εἴς τι look at someth. (Ps.-Pla., Alc. 1, 132e; Ps-Demosth. 34 p. 913, 4; Comp. II 167 J. [Menander, Fgm. 538, 2 Kock]; LXX) Mt 6:26, if ἐ. is to be taken literally here (s. 2 below); Ac 1:11; MPol 9:2. Abs. (X., Mem. 3, 11, 10; Herodas 5, 40; Bel 40 Theod.) Mt 19:26 (cp. Job 2:10); B 5:10. Abs. also Ac 22:11, if the rdg. οὐκ ἐνέβλεπον is tenable. The v.l. οὐδὲν ἔβλεπον has 9:8 in its favor, as well as the fact that the verbs ἐμβ. and β. are not infreq. interchanged in the mss. (cp. Ac 1:11; Sir 51:7), and the observation that ἐμβ. 22:11 would have to mean be able to see; the latter mng. cannot be established beyond all doubt by ἐνέβλεπεν τηλαυγῶς ἅπαντα Mk 8:25, since for this pass. he could see everything plainly is no more likely than he had a clear view of everything (on the acc. cp. Herodas 6, 44; Anth. Pal. 11, 3; Judg 16:27; SibOr 7, 124).② to give serious thought to something, look at, consider, fig. ext. of 1, εἴς τι (PSI 542, 16 [III B.C.]; UPZ 162 III, 7 [117 B.C.]; PTebt 28, 15 [114 B.C.]; Is 51:1f; Sir 2:10 al.) ἐ. τοῖς ὄμμασιν τῆς ψυχῆς εἰς τὸ μακρόθυμον αὐτοῦ βούλημα 1 Cl 19:3 (Philo, Sobr. 3 τὸ ψυχῆς ὄμμα … ἐμβλέπον). So perh. also Mt 6:26 (s. 1 above). W. obj. τοῖς τῆς καρδίας ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐνέβλεπον τὰ … ἀγαθά MPol 2:3.—M-M.
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