Meaning
"attentive watching" (akin to paratereo, "to observe"), is used in Luk 17:20, of the manner in which the kingdom of God (i.e., the operation of the spiritual kingdom in the hearts of men) does not come, "in such a manner that it can be watched with the eyes" (Grimm-Thayer), or, as AV marg., "with outward show."
"to observe carefully, consider well" (ana, "up," intensive, and theoreo, "to behold"), is used in Act 17:23, RV, "observed" (of Paul's notice of the objects of Athenian worship), and Heb 13:7, "considering." See BEHOLD.
see KEEP, No. 1.
see KEEP, No. 3.
"to watch closely, observe narrowly" (para, used intensively, and No. 2), is translated "ye observe" in Gal 4:10, where the Middle Voice suggests that their religious observance of days, etc. was not from disinterested motives, but with a view to their own advantage. See WATCH. Cp. phroneo ("to think"), "regardeth" in Rom 14:6, where the subject is connected with the above, though the motive differs.
see KEEP, No. 4.
"to do," is translated "to observe" in Act 16:21. See DO.
