anablepō · look up, see again

What it means

anablepō (ἀναβλέπω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “look up, see again”.

Regain sight; also look up.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To raise your eyes, look up.
2. To see again, a blind man who sees.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• looking up ×7
• had received his sight ×3
• he regained his sight ×3
• Regain your sight ×2
• looked up ×2
• receive their sight ×2
• I may regain my sight ×1
• I received my sight ×1
• he may regain his sight ×1
• recover your sight ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×6
• Luke×7
• John×4
• Acts×5

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 14:19

  And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed; and breaking them, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

• Matthew 20:34

  And Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes, and at once they regained their sight and followed him.

• Mark 6:41

  And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves and kept giving them to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among all.

• Mark 7:34

  and looking up to heaven, he sighed and says to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”

• Mark 8:24

  And looking up, he was saying, “I see people, for I see them like trees, walking.”

• Mark 10:51

  And answering him, Jesus said, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbouni, let me see again.”

• Mark 10:52

  And Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” And at once he regained his sight and was following him on the way.

• Mark 16:4

  And looking up, they see that the stone had been rolled away; for it was very large.

• Luke 7:22

  And he answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

• Luke 9:16

  And taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke them, and he kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

• Luke 18:41

  “What do you want me to do for you?” And he said, “Lord, that I may regain my sight.”

• Luke 18:42

  And Jesus said to him, “Regain your sight; your faith has made you well.”

• Luke 18:43

  And immediately he regained his sight and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God.

• Luke 19:5

  And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

• Luke 21:1

  And looking up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

• John 9:11

  He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and spread it on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”

• John 9:15

  So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

• John 9:18

  So the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

• Acts 9:12

  and he saw in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him so that he may regain his sight.”

• Acts 9:17

  So Ananias went away and entered into the house, and laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 9:18

  And at once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight; and he got up and was immersed.

• Acts 22:13

  came to me, and standing by me he said to me, ‘Brother Saul, recover your sight.’ And I, at that very hour, looked up at him.

And 2 more times.