observation 03045 ## yada` {yaw-dah'} ; a primitive root ; to know (properly , to ascertain by seeing) ; used in a great variety of senses , figuratively , literally , euphemistically and inferentially (including {observation} , care , recognition ; and causatively , instruction , designation , punishment , etc .) [as follow ] : -- acknowledge , acquaintance (- ted with) , advise , answer , appoint , assuredly , be aware , [un-] awares , can [-not ] , certainly , comprehend , consider , X could they , cunning , declare , be diligent , (can , cause to) discern , discover , endued with , familiar friend , famous , feel , can have , be [ig-] norant , instruct , kinsfolk , kinsman , (cause to let , make) know , (come to give , have , take) knowledge , have [knowledge ] , (be , make , make to be , make self) known , + be learned , + lie by man , mark , perceive , privy to , X prognosticator , regard , have respect , skilful , shew , can (man of) skill , be sure , of a surety , teach , (can) tell , understand , have [understanding ] , X will be , wist , wit , wot
observation 3700 - optanomai {op-tan'-om-ahee}; a (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) optomai {op'-tom-ahee}; which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of 3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 0991, which denotes simply voluntary {observation}; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance): -- appear, look, see, shew self.