In the New Testament this noun spans the concrete act of seeing and the extraordinary experience of a divinely-given vision. Peter's Pentecost sermon quotes Joel's promise that 'your young men shall see visions' (Acts 2:17), while in Revelation it describes outward appearance—'like jasper in appearance' (Rev 4:3). The multilingual evidence highlights the split: English and Spanish render the Acts passage as 'visions' but shift to 'in appearance' for the Revelation texts, and French similarly alternates between 'vision' and 'vue.' The word thus bridges ordinary sight and revelatory encounter.