Seem
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
denotes (a) "to be of opinion" (akin to doxa, "opinion"), e.g., Luke 8:18 , RV, "thinketh" (AV, "seemeth"); so 1—Corinthians 3:18; to think, suppose, James 1:26 , RV, "thinketh himself" (AV, "seem"); see Suppose , THINK; (b) "to seem, to be reputed," e.g., Acts 17:18; 1—Corinthians 11:16; 12:22; 2—Corinthians 10:9; Hebrews 4:1; 12:11; for Galatians 2:2,6,9 , see REPUTE; (c) impersonally (1) to think (see Think (2) to "seem" good, Luke 1:3; Acts 15:22 , Rv , "it seemed good" (AV, "it pleased"); 15:25,28 (ver. 34 in some mss.); in Hebrews 12:10 , the neuter of the present participle is used with the article, lit., "the (thing) seeming good," RV, "(as) seemed good," AV, "after (their own) pleasure." See Account , No. 1.
Matthew 11:26 Luke 10:21 Luke 24:11
King James Dictionary [2]
SEEM, 51
1. To appear to make or have a show or semblance.
Thou art not what thou seems't. Shak.
All seem'd well pleased all seem'd, but were not all. Milton.
2. To have the appearance of truth or fact to be understood as true. It seems that the Turkish power is on the decline.
A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. Addison.
SEEM, 5t. To become to befit. Obs.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.
(2): ( v. t.) To befit; to beseem.
