What does αὐτόπτης (autóptēs) mean in the Bible?
αὐτόπτης (autóptēs): One who directly witnesses an event themselves, not relying on secondhand reports or tradition
Greek · G845
αὐτόπτης
αὐτόπτης (autóptēs): One who directly witnesses an event themselves, not relying on secondhand reports or tradition
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αὐτόπτηςG845
Pronunciationautóptēs
What does αὐτόπτης (autóptēs) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G845?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include eyewitnesses (1).
Where does αὐτόπτης (autóptēs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 1:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Iteyewitnesses1×Luke 1:2
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowLuke 1:2
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Luke1
Source forms
αὐτόπται1xautoptaiLuke 1:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural1xLuke 1:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. One who directly witnesses an event themselves, not relying on secondhand reports or tradition
Strong'sG845
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
eyewitness
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
One who directly witnesses an event themselves, not relying on secondhand reports or tradition
seeing oneself, an eyewitness , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 1:2Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
αὐτόπταιautoptai
an eye-witness
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · MasculineLuke 1:21×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 1:1–4αὐτόπταιautóptēs
Eyewitnesses
Word Origins
αὐτόπτης is built from these roots: