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.
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
Occurrences
1,299 total
- Psalm 138:6יִרְאֶ֑ה · He attendsThough the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
- Psalm 139:16רָ֘א֤וּ · sawYour eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- Psalm 139:24וּרְאֵ֗ה · SeeSee if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
- Psalm 142:4וּרְאֵה֮ · and seeLook to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Proverbs 6:6רְאֵ֖ה · observeWalk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
- Proverbs 7:7וָאֵ֤רֶא · I sawI saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
- Proverbs 20:12רֹאָ֑ה · that seeEars that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.
- Proverbs 22:3רָאָ֣ה · seeThe prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
- Proverbs 23:31תֵּ֥רֶא · gaze atDo not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
- Proverbs 23:33יִרְא֣וּ · will seeYour eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
- Proverbs 24:18יִרְאֶ֣ה · will see…or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
- Proverbs 24:32רָ֝אִ֗יתִי · I lookedI observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
- Proverbs 25:7רָא֣וּ · you have seen…for it is better to be told, “Come up here!” than to be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,
- Proverbs 26:12רָאִ֗יתָ · Do you seeDo you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 27:12רָאָ֣ה · seeThe prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- Proverbs 27:25וְנִרְאָה־ · appearsWhen hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
- Proverbs 29:16יִרְאֽוּ׃ · will seeWhen the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
- Ecclesiastes 1:8לִרְא֔וֹת · with seeingAll things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 1:10רְאֵה־ · LookIs there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
- Ecclesiastes 1:14רָאִ֙יתִי֙ · I have seenI have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 1:16רָאָ֥ה · has observedI said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:1וּרְאֵ֣ה · enjoyI said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3אֶרְאֶ֗ה · I could seeI sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- Ecclesiastes 2:12לִרְא֣וֹת · to considerThen I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
- Ecclesiastes 2:13וְרָאִ֣יתִי · sawAnd I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
- Ecclesiastes 2:24וְהֶרְאָ֧ה · and enjoy; רָאִ֣יתִי · seenNothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
- Ecclesiastes 3:10רָאִ֣יתִי · I have seenI have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
- Ecclesiastes 3:13וְרָאָ֥ה · and find…and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16רָאִ֖יתִי · I sawFurthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18וְלִרְא֕וֹת · so that they may seeI said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:22וְרָאִ֗יתִי · I have seen; לִרְא֔וֹת · to seeI have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
- Ecclesiastes 4:1וָאֶרְאֶה֙ · consideredAgain I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Ecclesiastes 4:3רָאָה֙ · seenBut better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4וְרָאִ֨יתִֽי · sawI saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:7וָאֶרְאֶ֥ה · sawAgain, I saw futility under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15רָאִ֙יתִי֙ · I saw thatI saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8תִּרְאֶ֣ה · you seeIf you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:13רָאִ֖יתִי · I have seenThere is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
- Ecclesiastes 5:18רָאִ֣יתִי · have seen; וְלִרְא֨וֹת · and to findHere is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
- Ecclesiastes 6:1רָאִ֖יתִי · I have seenThere is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
- Ecclesiastes 6:5רָאָ֖ה · seeingThe child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
- Ecclesiastes 6:6רָאָ֑ה · enjoy…even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
- Ecclesiastes 7:11לְרֹאֵ֥י · those who seeWisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13רְאֵ֖ה · ConsiderConsider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Ecclesiastes 7:14רְאֵ֑ה · consider thisIn the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15רָאִ֖יתִי · I have seenIn my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27רְאֵה֙ · Behold“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.