Perceive

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Γινώσκω (Strong'S #1097 — Verb — ginosko — ghin-oce'-ko )

"to know by experience and observation," is translated "to perceive" in  Matthew 12:15 , RV (AV, "knew");  Matthew 16:8;  21:45;  22:18;  26:10 , RV, (AV, "understood");  Mark 8:17;  12:12;  15:10 , RV (AV, "knew"); so  Luke 9:11;  18:34; in  Luke 7:39 , RV (AV, "known");  Luke 20:19 (cp. No. 7 in ver. 23);   John 6:15;  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: Ἐπιγινώσκω (Strong'S #1921 — Verb — epiginosko — ep-ig-in-oce'-ko )

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;  5:22;  Acts 19:34 , RV (AV, "knew"). See Acknowledge , Know.

3: Ὁράω (Strong'S #3708 — Verb — eidon — hor-ah'-o )

(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: Θεωρέω (Strong'S #2334 — Verb — theoreo — theh-o-reh'-o )

"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: Αἰσθάνομαι (Strong'S #143 — Verb — aisthanomai — ahee-sthan'-om-ahee )

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

6: Νοέω (Strong'S #3539 — Verb — noeo — noy-eh'-o )

"to perceive with the mind, to understand," is translated "to perceive" in  Matthew 15:17 , RV (AV, "understand");  Song of Solomon 16:9,11;  John 12:40;  Romans 1:20;  Ephesians 3:4; in  Mark 7:18;  8:17 , AV and RV, "perceive." See Consider , No. 4.

7: Κατανοέω (Strong'S #2657 — Verb — katanoeo — kat-an-o-eh'-o )

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: Καταλαμβάνω (Strong'S #2638 — Verb — katalambano — kat-al-am-ban'-o )

"to lay hold of, apprehend, comprehend," is translated "to perceive" in  Acts 4:13;  10:34 . See Apprehend , No. 1.

 Mark 12:28  Acts 8:23 2—Corinthians 7:8 Acts 23:29 Acts 23:29

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To be affected of influented by.

(2): ( v. t.) To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.

(3): ( v. t.) To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.

King James Dictionary

Perce'Ive, L percipio per and capio, to take.

1. To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the senses or bodily organs as, to perceive light or color to perceive the cold or ice or the taste of honey. 2. To know to understand to observe.

Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understanding, we are in the dark.

3. To be affected by to receive impressions from.

The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air below.