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. Joshua 6:2רְאֵה֙ · Behold
    And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.
  2. Joshua 7:21וָאֶרְאֶה · When I saw
    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
  3. Joshua 8:1רְאֵ֣ה׀ · See
    Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
  4. Joshua 8:4רְ֠אוּ · Pay attention
    …with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
  5. Joshua 8:8רְא֖וּ · See
    And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
  6. Joshua 8:14כִּרְא֣וֹת · saw [the Israelites]
    When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
  7. Joshua 8:20וַיִּרְא֗וּ · and looked
    When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
  8. Joshua 8:21רָא֗וּ · saw
    When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
  9. Joshua 22:28רְא֣וּ · Look at
    Therefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’
  10. Joshua 23:3רְאִיתֶ֗ם · have seen
    …“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
  11. Joshua 23:4רְאוּ֩ · See
    See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
  12. Joshua 24:7וַתִּרְאֶ֙ינָה֙ · saw
    So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
  13. Judges 1:24וַיִּרְאוּ֙ · saw; הַרְאֵ֤נוּ · show us
    …and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”
  14. Judges 1:25וַיַּרְאֵם֙ · So [the man] showed them
    So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.
  15. Judges 2:7רָא֗וּ · had seen
    And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
  16. Judges 3:24וַיִּרְא֕וּ
    After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.
  17. Judges 4:22וְאַרְאֶ֔ךָּ · and I will show you
    When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
  18. Judges 5:8יֵֽרָאֶה֙ · was found
    When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
  19. Judges 6:12וַיֵּרָ֥א · appeared
    And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
  20. Judges 6:22וַיַּ֣רְא · realized; רָאִ֙יתִי֙ · I have seen
    When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
  21. Judges 7:17תִרְא֖וּ · Watch me
    “Watch me and do as I do,” Gideon said. “When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do exactly as I do.
  22. Judges 9:36וַיַּרְא־ · saw; רֹאֶ֖ה · look
    When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
  23. Judges 9:43וַיַּ֗רְא · When he saw
    So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.
  24. Judges 9:48רְאִיתֶם֙ · you have seen me
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  25. Judges 9:55וַיִּרְא֥וּ · saw
    And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
  26. Judges 11:35כִרְאוֹת֨וֹ · [Jephthah] saw
    As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
  27. Judges 12:3וָֽאֶרְאֶ֞ה · When I saw
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  28. Judges 13:3וַיֵּרָ֥א · appeared
    The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
  29. Judges 13:10נִרְאָ֤ה · has reappeared
    The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
  30. Judges 13:19רֹאִֽים׃ · looked on
    Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
  31. Judges 13:20רֹאִ֔ים · saw [this]
    When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
  32. Judges 13:21לְהֵרָאֹ֖ה · appear
    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
  33. Judges 13:22רָאִֽינוּ׃ · we have seen
    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
  34. Judges 13:23הֶרְאָ֖נוּ · have shown
    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
  35. Judges 14:1וַיַּ֥רְא · where he saw
    One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
  36. Judges 14:2רָאִ֥יתִי · I have seen
    So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
  37. Judges 14:8לִרְא֔וֹת · the road to see
    When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
  38. Judges 14:11כִּרְאוֹתָ֣ם · [the Philistines] saw him
    And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.
  39. Judges 16:1וַיַּרְא־ · he saw
    One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
  40. Judges 16:5וּרְאִי֙ · and find out
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  41. Judges 16:18וַתֵּ֣רֶא · realized
    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.
  42. Judges 16:24וַיִּרְא֤וּ · saw him
    And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
  43. Judges 16:27הָרֹאִ֖ים · watching
    Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
  44. Judges 18:7וַיִּרְא֣וּ · where they saw
    So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
  45. Judges 18:9רָאִ֙ינוּ֙ · we have seen
    They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
  46. Judges 18:26וַיַּ֣רְא · saw
    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
  47. Judges 19:3וַיִּרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ · saw him
    …her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.