Beware
Beware
“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.
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 16:11-12; Luk 12:1; Luk 20:46. See ATTEND, HEED, REGARD.
“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.