with wide-open eyes

late present as from (= ); mid., , , . c. dat., . (For exx. from , v. Deiss., , 79, 252; MM, ii, xviii.).† ὤφθην ὁράω ὀπτάνομαι π. to allow oneself to be seen to appear Ac 1:3 LAE 5

to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991 (βλέπω), which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492 (εἴδω), which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while G2300 (θεάομαι), and still more emphatically its intensive G2334 (θεωρέω), signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 (σκοπέω) a watching from a distance)

appear, look, see, shew self