ὄψονται (opsontai) in Revelation 22:4: Verb Third Person Plural Future Middle Deponent Indicative

Verb: the form names an action or state, here an act of seeing or beholding in the clause.

Future: points the action forward from the speaker's viewpoint, while the sentence controls the exact sense.

Middle Deponent: uses a middle or passive form traditionally read with active sense. The lexeme and sentence still govern the meaning.

Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.

Third person: the form speaks about someone or something rather than directly as I/we or you.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Plural: the form is grammatically plural and presents the action as shared by more than one subject.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

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The form is the finite verb of the clause and is not governed by a nearby noun; it stands with the conjunction and takes its object in the following phrase.

It states what the plural subject will do: they will see or behold the face of him.

It does not by itself identify the subject, and it does not change the meaning of the verb into a different lemma or idea.

High: The future plural verb states the promised vision of his face in Revelation's final scene.

Future middle deponent indicative, third person plural. states what the plural subject will see in the final scene. Attached to the object phrase his face. Governed by the clause describing the servants in Revelation 22. The verb expresses promised sight; the object and setting supply the theological weight.

What will they see? They will see his face.

Direct: The future plural form directly supports they will see.

Middle deponent morphology should not be read as special agency. Future form states the promised action but does not by itself define every detail of beatific vision or access. The subject is supplied by the surrounding passage and should not be invented from the verb alone.

Future form alone proves the whole doctrine of vision: The verb supports the promise; the verse and canon govern the theological claim. deponent voice proves self-action: The deponent label should not create an agency claim.

The text reads ὄψονται in Revelation 22:4, with the surrounding clause, and the witness is the Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus.

The lemma is ὁράω, a verb of seeing, beholding, or perceiving, so the form belongs to the semantic field of visual attention and experience.

The future indicative presents the action as certain in the reported scene, and the plural points to more than one participant without naming them.

In this verse the wording communicates that the redeemed or addressed group will behold God's face, a direct and intimate form of access.

This fits the broader biblical pattern of promised divine presence and direct vision, while the grammar itself only expresses the action in this verse.

For readers and teachers, the form supports a clear promise of coming sight and communion, but the surrounding clause must carry the full interpretive weight.

Do not derive a hidden subject, a doctrinal system from voice alone, or a gendered theological claim from the plural or the middle-deponent form.