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|strgr=a ([[middle]] [[voice]]) prolonged [[form]] of the [[primary]] ([[middle]] [[voice]]) optomai; [[which]] is used for it in [[certain]] tenses; and [[both]] as alternate of [[ὁράω]]; to [[gaze]] (i.e. [[with]] [[wide]]-[[open]] eyes, as at [[something]] [[remarkable]]; and [[thus]] differing from [[βλέπω]], [[which]] denotes [[simply]] [[voluntary]] [[observation]]; and from [[εἴδω]], [[which]] expresses [[merely]] [[mechanical]], [[passive]] or [[casual]] [[vision]]; [[while]] [[θεάομαι]], and [[still]] [[more]] [[emphatically]] its intensive [[θεωρέω]], signifies an [[earnest]] [[but]] [[more]] continued [[inspection]]; and [[σκοπέω]] a watching from a [[distance]]): [[appear]], [[look]], [[see]], [[shew]] [[self]].