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To look

דָּגַלStrong’s H1713

dagal (da-gal)

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dagal is the Hebrew word usually translated “like hosts with banners”, “we will raise a banner” and “conspicuous”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.”
Psalms 20:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. To look, behold(Qal) looked at, conspicuous (participle)
  2. To carry a banner or standard, set up banner or standard(Qal) to set up standard (in battle) · (Niphal) supplied with banners, bannered
How it's translated
  • like hosts with banners 2
  • we will raise a banner 1
  • conspicuous 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Song of Solomon 3
  • Psalms 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

דָּגַל dagal · to look

1) to look, behold 1a) (Qal) looked at, conspicuous (participle)

דָּגַל dagal · to set a banner

1) to carry a banner or standard, set up banner or standard 1a)(Qal) to set up standard (in battle) 1b) (Niphal) supplied with banners, bannered

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “look” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LOOK, verb intransitive

[See Light. The primary sense is to stretch, to extend, to shoot, hence to direct the eye. We observe its primary sense is nearly the same as that of seek. Hence, to look for is to seek.]

  1. To direct the eye towards an object, with the intention of seeing it.
  2. To see; to have the sight or view of.
  3. To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine. look at the conduct of this man; view it in all its aspects.
  4. To expect.
All definitions and other forms of “look”
  1. To take care; to watch.
  2. To be directed.“Let thine eyes look right on” Proverbs 4:25
  3. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance.
  4. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.“The gate that looketh toward the north” Ezekiel 8:3“The east gate of the Lord's house, that looketh eastward” Ezekiel 11:1
  5. To look after, to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children.
  6. To expect; to be in a state of expectation.“Men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” Luke 21:26
  7. To seek; to search.
  8. To look for, to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.
  9. To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.“Which things the angels desire to look into” 1 Peter 1:12
  10. To look on, to regard; to esteem.
  11. To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.
  12. To be a mere spectator.
  13. To look to, or unto, to watch; to take care of.“LOOK well to thy herds” Proverbs 27:23
  14. To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from.“LOOK to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth” Isaiah 45:22

LOOK, verb transitive

  1. To seek; to search for.
  2. To influence by looks or presence; as, to look down opposition.

LOOK, noun

  1. Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind.
  2. The act of looking or seeing.
  3. View; watch.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.