Aphorao means “look” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H872 — beah (“entry”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G872 ἀφοράω (aphorao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aphorao (af-or-ah'-o) v. 1. to consider attentively [from G575 and G3708] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include looking. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aphorao (af-or-ah'-o) v. 1. to consider attentively [from G575 and G3708] KJV: look Root(s): G575, G3708
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G872. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to consider
Usage: ἀφ-οράω, -ῶ [in LXX: 4Ma.17:10 (είς θεόν)* ;] __(a) to look away from all else at, fix one's gaze upon: metaphorically (MM, see word), Heb.12:2; __(b) simply, to see: ἀφίδω (see: ἀπεῖδον, and Lft., Phi., in l; MM, see word), Php.2:23 (see Ellic., in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aphorao, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G872 (ἀφοράω) appears 4 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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Jonah went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.
For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G872.
And Jonah went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.
For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G872, grouped by book.
Aphorao (Strong's G872) is a Greek word most simply glossed "look". aphorao (af-or-ah'-o) v. 1. to consider attentively [from G575 and G3708]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G872 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G872 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 looking. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G872, with linked reader references where each row is available.