Lexicon katoptrizó: to reflect as a mirror Original Word: κατοπτρίζομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katoptrizó Phonetic Spelling: (kat-op-trid'-zom-ahee) Short Definition: I mirror, reflect Definition: I mirror, reflect. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom katoptron (a mirror) Definitionto reflect as a mirror NASB Translationbeholding as in a mirror (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2734: κατοπτρίζωκατοπτρίζω: ( κάτοπτρον a mirror), to show in a mirror, to make to reflect, to mirror: κατοπτριζων ὁ ἥλιος τήν ἰριν, Plutarch, mor., p. 894 f. (i. e. de plac. philos. 3, 5, 11). Middle present κατοπτρίζομαι; to look at oneself in a mirror ( Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 7; Athen. 15, p. 687 c.; ( Diogenes Laërtius 2, 33; (7, 17)); to behold for oneself as in a mirror ( Winers Grammar, 254 (238); Buttmann, 193f (167)): τήν δόξαν τοῦ κυρίου, the glory of Christ (which we behold in the gospel as in a mirror from which it is reflected), 2 Corinthians 3:18. Plainly so in Philo, alleg. leg. iii., § 33 μηδέ κατοπτρισαιμην ἐν ἄλλῳ τίνι Strong's behold as in a mirror Middle voice from a compound of kata and a derivative of optanomai (compare esoptron); to mirror oneself, i.e. To see reflected (figuratively) -- behold as in a glass. see GREEK kata see GREEK optanomai see GREEK esoptron |
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