רָאָה

ra.ahto see: seeHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,299 occurrences38 books1,200 verses
This word comes from the name of LORD.

Definition

a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Traditional renderings: advise self, appear, approve, behold, × certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, × indeed, × joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, × be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), × sight of others, (e-) spy, stare, × surely, × think, view, visions.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders רָאָה:

Glossary entries

Lord Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Eli Abba Most High

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,299 total
  1. 2 Samuel 13:34וַיַּ֗רְא · he saw
    Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
  2. 2 Samuel 14:24יִרְאֶ֑ה · see; רָאָֽה׃ס · see
    But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the face of the king.
  3. 2 Samuel 14:28רָאָֽה׃ · seeing
    Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
  4. 2 Samuel 14:30רְאוּ֩ · Look
    Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
  5. 2 Samuel 14:32אֶרְאֶה֙ · let me see
    “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
  6. 2 Samuel 15:3רְאֵ֥ה · Look
    Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
  7. 2 Samuel 15:25וְהִרְאַ֥נִי · and let me see
    Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
  8. 2 Samuel 15:27הֲרוֹאֶ֣ה · [Are you not] a seer
    The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace—you with your son Ahimaaz, and Abiathar with his son Jonathan.
  9. 2 Samuel 15:28רְאוּ֙ · See
    See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
  10. 2 Samuel 16:12יִרְאֶ֥ה · will see
    Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
  11. 2 Samuel 17:17לְהֵרָא֖וֹת · be seen
    Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.
  12. 2 Samuel 17:18וַיַּ֤רְא · did see
    But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
  13. 2 Samuel 17:23רָאָ֗ה · saw
    When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
  14. 2 Samuel 18:10וַיַּרְא֙ · saw this; רָאִ֣יתִי · saw
    When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
  15. 2 Samuel 18:11רָאִ֔יתָ · saw him
    “You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”
  16. 2 Samuel 18:21רָאִ֑יתָה · you have seen
    So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.
  17. 2 Samuel 18:24וַיַּ֔רְא · and saw
    Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
  18. 2 Samuel 18:26וַיַּ֣רְא · saw
    …the watchman saw another man running, and he called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!” “This one also brings good news,” said the king.
  19. 2 Samuel 18:27רֹאֶה֙ · appears
    The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
  20. 2 Samuel 18:29רָאִיתִי֩ · I saw
    The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
  21. 2 Samuel 20:12וַיַּ֨רְא · saw; רָאָ֔ה
    But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.
  22. 2 Samuel 22:11וַיֵּרָ֖א · He soared
    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
  23. 2 Samuel 22:16וַיֵּֽרָאוּ֙ · appeared
    The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
  24. 2 Samuel 24:3רֹא֑וֹת · see [it]
    But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
  25. 2 Samuel 24:13וּרְאֵ֔ה · and decide
    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  26. 2 Samuel 24:17בִּרְאֹת֣וֹ׀ · saw
    When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
  27. 2 Samuel 24:20וַיַּ֤רְא · and saw
    When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
  28. 2 Samuel 24:22רְאֵה֙ · whatever seems
    Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  29. 1 Kings 1:48רֹאֽוֹת׃ · have seen [it]
    …saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
  30. 1 Kings 3:5נִרְאָ֧ה · appeared
    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
  31. 1 Kings 3:28רָא֔וּ · they saw
    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
  32. 1 Kings 6:18נִרְאָֽה׃ · could be seen
    The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
  33. 1 Kings 8:8וַיֵּרָאוּ֩ · were visible; יֵרָא֖וּ
    The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
  34. 1 Kings 9:2וַיֵּרָ֧א · appeared; נִרְאָ֥ה · He had appeared
    …the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
  35. 1 Kings 9:12לִרְאוֹת֙ · to inspect
    So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
  36. 1 Kings 10:4וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ · saw
    When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
  37. 1 Kings 10:7וַתִּרְאֶ֣ינָה · and saw
    But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard.
  38. 1 Kings 10:12נִרְאָ֔ה · been seen again
    The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
  39. 1 Kings 11:9הַנִּרְאָ֥ה · who had appeared
    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
  40. 1 Kings 11:28וַיַּ֨רְא · noticed
    Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
  41. 1 Kings 12:16וַיַּ֣רְא · saw; רְאֵ֥ה · Look
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  42. 1 Kings 13:12וַיִּרְא֣וּ · showed him
    “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
  43. 1 Kings 13:25וַיִּרְא֤וּ · who saw
    And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.
  44. 1 Kings 14:4לִרְא֔וֹת · see
    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.