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Beholding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Fixing the eyes upon; looking on; seeing.

2. Fixing the attention; regarding with attention.

3. Obligation. [Not used.]

4. Obliged. Bacon on Love. A mistaken use of the word for beholden.

Beholding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Obliged; beholden.

Beholding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.

Beholding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Behold

Beholdingness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being obliged.

2. [An error, and not in use.]

Beholdingness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being obliged or beholden.

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Psalms 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

Matthew 27:55

And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

And many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to minister to Him.

Mark 10:21

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Luke 23:35

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

Luke 23:48

And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.

And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.

Luke 23:49

And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.

Acts 4:14

And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.

Acts 8:13

Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.

Acts 14:9

The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

This man was listening to the words of Paul, who looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed.

Acts 23:1

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Colossians 2:5

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

James 1:23

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

Sirach 23:19

Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

Sirach 42:25

One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be filled with beholding his glory?