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
- Deuteronomy 4:35הָרְאֵ֣תָ · were shown [these things]You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
- Deuteronomy 4:36הֶרְאֲךָ֙ · He showedHe let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 5:24הֶרְאָ֜נוּ · has shown us; רָאִ֔ינוּ · we have seen…and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
- Deuteronomy 7:19רָא֣וּ · saw…the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- Deuteronomy 9:13רָאִ֙יתִי֙ · I have seenThe LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:16וָאֵ֗רֶא · And I sawAnd I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 10:21רָא֖וּ · have seenHe is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
- Deuteronomy 11:2רָא֔וּ · seenKnow this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
- Deuteronomy 11:7הָֽרֹאֹ֔ת · [that] have seenFor it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
- Deuteronomy 11:26רְאֵ֗ה · SeeSee, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
- Deuteronomy 12:13תִּרְאֶֽה׃ · you seeBe careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;
- Deuteronomy 16:4יֵרָאֶ֨ה · is to be foundNo leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
- Deuteronomy 16:16יֵרָאֶ֨ה · are to appear; יֵרָאֶ֛ה · should appearThree times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- Deuteronomy 18:16אֶרְאֶ֥ה · or seeThis is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
- Deuteronomy 20:1וְֽרָאִ֜יתָ · and seeWhen you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
- Deuteronomy 21:7רָאֽוּ׃ · see it…and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
- Deuteronomy 21:11וְרָאִיתָ֙ · if you see…if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
- Deuteronomy 22:1תִרְאֶה֩ · If you seeIf you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
- Deuteronomy 22:4תִרְאֶה֩ · If you seeIf you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
- Deuteronomy 23:14יִרְאֶ֤ה · He seeFor the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
- Deuteronomy 26:7וַיַּ֧רְא · and sawSo we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
- Deuteronomy 28:10וְרָאוּ֙ · will seeThen all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:32רֹא֔וֹת · lookingYour sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
- Deuteronomy 28:34תִּרְאֶֽה׃ · you seeYou will be driven mad by the sights you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:67תִּרְאֶֽה׃ · you will seeIn the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- Deuteronomy 28:68לִרְאֹתָ֑הּ · seeThe LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Deuteronomy 29:2רְאִיתֶ֗ם · have seenMoses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
- Deuteronomy 29:3רָא֖וּ · You sawYou saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
- Deuteronomy 29:4לִרְא֖וֹת · to seeYet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- Deuteronomy 29:17וַתִּרְאוּ֙ · You sawYou saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
- Deuteronomy 29:22וְ֠רָאוּ · will seeThen the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
- Deuteronomy 30:15רְאֵ֨ה · SeeSee, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
- Deuteronomy 31:11לֵרָאוֹת֙…when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:15וַיֵּרָ֧א · appearedThen the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
- Deuteronomy 32:19וַיַּ֥רְא · saw thisWhen the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
- Deuteronomy 32:20אֶרְאֶ֖ה · I will seeHe said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
- Deuteronomy 32:36יִרְאֶה֙ · He seesFor the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- Deuteronomy 32:39רְא֣וּ׀ · SeeSee now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Deuteronomy 32:49וּרְאֵה֙ · and view“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- Deuteronomy 32:52תִּרְאֶ֣ה · you shall seeAlthough you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
- Deuteronomy 33:9רְאִיתִ֔יו · consider themHe said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
- Deuteronomy 33:21וַיַּ֤רְא · He choseHe chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 34:1וַיַּרְאֵ֨הוּ · showed himThen Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
- Deuteronomy 34:4הֶרְאִיתִ֣יךָ · I have let you seeAnd the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
- Joshua 2:1רְא֥וּ · inspectThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- Joshua 3:3כִּרְאֽוֹתְכֶ֗ם · When you see…and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.
- Joshua 5:6הַרְאוֹתָ֣ם · to let them seeFor the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Joshua 5:13וַיַּ֔רְא · and sawNow when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”