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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
(2): (v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
(3): (v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
(4): (v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
(5): (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
(6): (v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; - often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
(7): (v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; - generally with to; as, to see to the house.
(8): (v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
(9): (n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
(10): (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
(11): (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
(12): (v. t.) In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum.
King James Dictionary [2]
SEE, n.
1. The seat of episcopal power a diocese the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(properly רָאָה , raah; ειδον ), a term used in Scripture not only of the sense of vision by which we perceive external objects, but also of inward perception, of the knowledge of spiritual things, and even of the supernatural sight of hidden things — of prophecy, visions, ecstasies. Hence it is that those persons were formerly called seers who afterwards were called Nabi, or prophets, and that prophecies were called visions. (See Seer).
The verb to see is Hebraistically used to express all kinds of sensations. It is said (Exodus 20:18) that the Israelites saw voices, thunder, lightnings. the sound of the trumpet, and the whole mountain of Sinai covered with clouds or smoke. To see good, or goods, is to enjoy them. "I believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living" (Psalms 27:13), i.e. I hope that God will bring me back into my own country, into the land of Judea, where I shall live in peace and prosperity. Job says (Job 7:7), "I shall die, and see no more; I shall no longer enjoy the good things of this world." The psalmist says (Psalms 4:6), "There be many that say, Who will show us any good?" that is, to enjoy any happiness in this life.
By an easy metaphor from this, to see the face of the king is to be of his council, his household, or to approach him. The kings of Persia, to maintain their respect and majesty, seldom permitted their subjects to see them, and hardly ever showed themselves in public. None but their most intimate friends or their familiar domestics had the honor of beholding their faces (Esther 1:10; Esther 1:14). Frequent allusion is made to this custom in Scripture, which mentions the seven principal angels that see the face of the Lord and appear in his presence (Revelation 1:4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
sē : In addition to the ordinary sense of perceiving by the eye, we have (1) חזה , ḥāzāh , "to see" (in vision): "Words of Amos ... which he saw concerning Israel" ( Amos 1:1 ). The revelation was made to his inward eye. "The word of Yahweh ... which he (Micah) saw concerning Samaria" ( Micah 1:1 ), describing what he saw in prophetic vision (compare Habakkuk 1:1 ); see Revelation , III, 4; (2) ὁράω , horáō , "to take heed": "See thou say nothing" (Mark 1:44 ); (3) εἶδον , eı́don , "to know," "to note with the mind": "Jesus saw that he answered discreetly" ( Mark 12:34 ); (4) θεωρέω , theōréō , "to view," "to have knowledge or experience of": "He shall never see death" ( John 8:51 ).
