רֳאִי
rŏʼîy · H7210 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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seeing
Process or action by which living creatures perceive something with their eyes, either as a spontaneous incident or as the result of focusing the eyes on something
Examples1 Samuel 16:12 So he sent word and brought him in. Now he was reddish, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is he.”
Job 33:21 “His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones, which were not seen, stick out.
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spectacle
A person or object that people want to see because of its unusual looks
ExamplesNahum 3:6 “I will throw filth on you And declare you worthless, And set you up as a spectacle.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- טוֹבgood 1
- אֵלGod, god 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- See002004001005
- The word means to see or be seen, directly illustrated by Hagar naming the LORD "a God who sees me" and asking, "have I even seen Him here and lived" (Genesis 16:13) and David's handsome appearance being seen (1 Samuel 16:12).
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- The word's "gazingstock/spectacle" sense is directly illustrated by the LORD declaring He will "set you up as a spectacle" (Nahum 3:6).
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7210. roi רֳאִי noun [masculine] looking, seeing, sight; — 1 seeing, ר ׳אֵל Gen 16:13 a…
רֳאִי noun [masculine] looking, seeing, sight; —
1 seeing, ר ׳אֵל Gen 16:13 a a God of seeing ( =who sees).
2 appearance ( =מַרְאֶה), רֹ֑אִי טוֺב 1Sa 16:12; מֵרֹ֑אִי Job 33:21 without (healthy, fair) appearance.
3 sight, (warning-) spectacle, כְּרֹ֑אִי Nah 3:6. — ׳ר Gen 16:13b Job 7:8 is
Qal Participle suffix
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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