To perceive: see · by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear
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εἴδω · ὁράω is a Greek phrase meaning "used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent and ; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know".
Full entry for ἰδόντες (G1492, G3708) · Open the biblical lexicon
εἴδω · ὁράω is a Greek phrase meaning "used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent and ; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know".
Greek phrase. used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent and ; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know
How this verb appears across 464 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
ἰδόντες is a primary verb - no further derivation.