"to see," is applied to mental vision, and is sometimes used by way of warning "to take heed" against an object, Mar 8:15, Mar 12:38, Act 13:40, Phi 3:2 (three times); in Col 2:8, RV, "take heed," marg., "see whether." See BEHOLD.
<2,,4337, prosecho>
lit., "to hold to" (pros, "to," echo, "to have, to hold"), hence, "to turn one's mind or attention to a thing by being on one's guard against it" is translated "beware" in Mat 7:15, Mat 10:17, Mat 16:6, Mat 1:16-12, Luk 12:1, Luk 20:46. See ATTEND, HEED, REGARD.
<3,,5442, phulasso>
"to guard, watch, keep," is used, in the Middle Voice, of being "on one's guard against" (the Middle V. stressing personal interest in the action), Luk 12:15, "beware of," RV, "keep yourselves from," as in Act 21:25; in 2Ti 4:15, "be thou ware;" in 2Pe 3:17, "beware." See GUARD, KEEP, OBSERVE, SAVE.
