Lexicon antophthalmeó: to look in the face, look straight at Original Word: ἀντοφθαλμέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: antophthalmeó Phonetic Spelling: (ant-of-thal-meh'-o) Short Definition: I face, resist Definition: I face (lit: I present my eye to), resist, withstand; as nautical term: I bear up against the wind. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom anti and ophthalmosDefinitionto look in the face, look straight at NASB Translationface (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 503: ἀντοφθαλμέωἀντοφθαλμέω, ἀντοφθάλμω; ( ἀντοφθαλμος looking in the eye) 1. properly, to look against or straight at. 2. metaphorically, to bear up against, withstand: τῷ ἀνέμῳ, of a ship, (cf. our 'look the wind in the eye,' 'face' (R. V.) the wind): Acts 27:15. (Wis. 12:14; often in Polybius; in ecclesiastical writings.)
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