Optasia means “vision” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3701 — keceph (“money”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3701 ὀπτασία (optasia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. optasia (op-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. visuality 2. (concretely) an apparition It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include vision and visions. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
optasia (op-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. visuality 2. (concretely) an apparition [from a presumed derivative of G3700] KJV: vision Compare: G3700
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3701. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
vision
Usage: ὀπτασία, -ας, ἡ (ὀπτάζομαι, Num.14:14* = ὀπτάνομαι), later form of ὄψις, [in LXX: Mal.3:2 (רָאָה ni.), Da TH Dan.9:23 10:1, 7-8 10:16 (מַרְאֶה, מַרְאָה LXX, ὅραμα, -σις), Est.4:7, Sir.43:2, 16 * ;] __1. an appearing, coming into view (Ma, Es, Sir, ll. with). __2. a vision: Luk.1:22 24:23, Act.26:19, 2Co.12:1 (Da, ll. with, also in MGr.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render optasia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3701 (ὀπτασία) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
At the beginning of thy supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.
In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.
And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising A marvelous instrument, the work of the most High:
At his sight the mountains are shaken, And at his will the south wind bloweth.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3701.
At the beginning of thy supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.
In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.
And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.
So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength.
And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, at the sight of thee my bowels were turned within me, and I had no strength.
And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.
And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising A marvelous instrument, the work of the most High:
At his sight the mountains are shaken, And at his will the south wind bloweth.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3701, grouped by book.
Optasia (Strong's G3701) is a Greek word most simply glossed "vision". optasia (op-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. visuality 2. (concretely) an apparition
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G3701 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3701 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vision and visions. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3701, with linked reader references where each row is available.