anablepo most often denotes receiving sight after blindness and can also describe lifting the gaze upward.

The verb most often occurs where blind persons receive or regain sight; it also describes a person directing the gaze upward, whether toward heaven, an elevated object, or someone above.

1. Receive or regain sight · dominant

   In Acts 9:18, the aorist indicative follows the falling of scales from Saul's eyes, and the APB renders the result “he regained his sight.” In John 9:11, the first-person aorist follows washing at Siloam; in Luke 18:41, the speaker's aorist subjunctive request concerns seeing again; and in Matthew 20:34, the plural aorist reports the immediate result after Jesus touched the men's eyes.

   Acts 9:18John 9:11Luke 18:41Mark 10:52Matthew 20:34Matthew 11:5
2. Look upward · common

   In Luke 19:5, the aorist participle introduces Jesus' address to Zacchaeus, who is told to come down; the APB renders the action “Jesus looked up.” In Mark 6:41 and Matthew 14:19, the same participial form occurs as he takes the loaves and fish before blessing them, while Mark 16:4 uses a plural feminine participle as the women see the stone already rolled away.

   Luke 19:5Luke 21:1Mark 6:41Mark 7:34Mark 16:4Matthew 14:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across recovery-of-sight contexts, the APB uses expressions such as “receive sight,” “regain his sight,” and “recover my sight.” In upward-gaze scenes it commonly says “looked up” or “looking up”; these are verse-level renderings, not fixed word alignments.