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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

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; 12:38; Act 13:40; Phl 3:2 (three times); in Col 2:8, RV, "take heed," marg., "see whether."
See BEHOLD.

Beware:

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; 10:17; 16:6, 11, 12; Luk 12:1; 20:46.
See ATTEND, HEED, REGARD.

Beware:

"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.