Perceive - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Perceive

[ 1,,G1097, ginosko ]
to know by experience and observation," is translated "to perceive" in Matthew 12:15, RV (AV, "knew"); Matthew 16:8; Matthew 21:45; Matthew 22:18; Matthew 26:10, RV, (AV, "understood"); Mark 8:17; Mark 12:12; Mark 15:10, RV (AV, "knew"); so Luke 9:11; Luke 18:34; in Luke 7:39, RV (AV, "known"); Luke 20:19 (cp. No. 7 in Luke 20:23); John 6:15; John 8:27, RV (AV, "understood"); John 16:19, RV (AV, "knew"); Acts 23:6; Galatians 2:9; in 1 John 3:16, AV, "perceive" (RV, "know," perfect tense, lit., "we have perceived," and therefore "know"). See KNOW.

[ 2,,G1921, epiginosko ]
a strengthened form of No. 1, "to gain a full knowledge of, to become fully acquainted with," is translated "to perceive" in Mark 5:30, RV (AV, "Knowing"); Luke 1:22; Luke 5:22; Acts 19:34, RV (AV, "knew"). See ACKNOWLEDGE, KNOW.

[ 3,,G3708, eidon ]
(akin to oida, "to know"), an aorist form used to supply that tense of horao, "to See," is translated "to perceive" in Matthew 13:14; Mark 4:12; Acts 28:26; in Luke 9:47, AV (RV, "saw"); in Acts 14:9, AV, "perceiving" (RV, "seeing"). See BEHOLD, No. 1.

[ 4,,G2334, theoreo ]
"to be a spectator of, look at, discern," is translated "to perceive" in John 4:19 (indicating the woman's earnest contemplation of the Lord); so Acts 17:22; in John 12:19, RV, "behold" (AV, "perceive ye"). See BEHOLD, No. 6.

[ 5,,G143, aisthanomai ]
"to perceive, to notice, understand," is used in Luke 9:45, RV, "(that they should not) perceive," AV, "(that) they perceived ... (not)."

[ 6,,G3539, noeo ]
"to perceive with the mind, to understand," is translated "to perceive" in Matthew 15:17, RV (AV, "understand"); so Matthew 16:9, Matthew 16:11; John 12:40; Romans 1:20; Ephesians 3:4; in Mark 7:18; Mark 8:17, AV and RV, "perceive." See CONSIDER, No. 4.

[ 7,,G2657, katanoeo ]
a strengthened form of No. 6, "to take note of, consider carefully," is translated "to perceive" in Luke 6:41, AV (RV, "considerest"); Luke 20:23; Acts 27:39, RV (AV, "discovered"). See BEHOLD, No. 11.

[ 8,,G2638, katalambano ]
"to lay hold of, apprehend, comprehend," is translated "to perceive" in Acts 4:13; Acts 10:34. See APPREHEND, No. 1.

Notes:

(1) In Mark 12:28 the best mss. have oida, "to know" (so RV), for eidon, "to See, perceive" (AV).

(2) In Acts 8:23, AV, horao, "to See," is translated "I perceive" (RV, "I see").

(3) In 2 Corinthians 7:8, AV, blepo, "to look at, consider, See," is translated "I perceive" (RV, "I (see").

(4) In Acts 23:29, AV, heurisko, "to see").

(4) In Acts 23:29, AV, heurisko, "to find," is translated "perceived" (RV, "found").

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words