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# רֳאִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7210

**looking** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

looking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֳאִי: looking, seeing, sight Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] looking, seeing, sight;— seeing, אֵל ר׳ Gn 16:13a a God of seeing (= who sees). appearance (= מַרְאֶה), טוֹב רֹ֑אִי 1 S 16:12; מֵרֹ֑אִי Jb 33:21 without (healthy, fair) appearance. sight, (warning-) spectacle, כְּרֹ֑אִי Na 3:6.—ר׳ Gn 16:13b; Jb 7:8 is Qal Pt. sf.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a spectacle (1); of appearance (1); of seeing (1).

## In the verses

[Job 33:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.21/#tree)

יִ֣כֶל בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מֵרֹ֑אִי וְשֻׁפּ֥וּ עַ֝צְמוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א רֻאּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.wastes.away flesh his from sight and they.are.laid.bare bones his \[which\].not they.were.seen

*JPS 1917:* His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones corrode to unsightliness.

[Nahum 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.6/#tree)

וְהִשְׁלַכְתִּ֥י עָלַ֛יִךְ שִׁקֻּצִ֖ים וְנִבַּלְתִּ֑יךְ וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ כְּרֹֽאִי׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.throw on you detestable.things and I will.treat.you.with.contempt and I will.make.you like a.spectacle

*JPS 1917:* And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7210.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).