Lexicon esoptron: a mirror (i.e. an object for looking into) Original Word: ἔσοπτρον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: esoptron Phonetic Spelling: (es'-op-tron) Short Definition: a mirror Definition: a mirror, looking-glass (made of highly polished metal). HELPS word-Studies 2072 ésoptron – a metallic mirror (not made of glass). Ancient mirrors (merely made of polished metal) only produced an indistinct image (reflection). So, to get an accurate picture (reflection) the viewer had to look from several different angles ("standpoints"). This has profound implications in "doing theology"! NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eis and the fut. of horaóDefinitiona mirror (i.e. an object for looking into) NASB Translationmirror (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2072: ἔσοπτρονἔσοπτρον, ἐσόπτρου, τό ( ὈΠΤΩ), a mirror: 1 Corinthians 13:12; James 1:23. (Wis. 7:26; Sir. 12:11; Pindar Nem. 7, 20; Anacreon ( ) 11, (7 (6)) 3; Plutarch; others) The mirrors of the ancients were made, not of glass (cf. B. D. under the word , at the end), but of steel; Pliny, h. n. 33 (9) 45; 34, (17) 48 (but see the passages just referred to, and B. D. under the word mirror).
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