Appearance
מַרְאֶהStrong’s H4758mareh (mar-eh)
Appears in 82 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mareh is the Hebrew word usually translated “appearance”, “like appearance of” and “appearance its”. It appears in 82 verses of the Old Testament.
“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Meaning
- Sight, appearance, visionsight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision · what is seen · a vision (supernatural) · sight, vision (power of seeing)
How it's translated
- appearance 19
- like appearance of 19
- appearance its 7
- and appearance of 6
- appearance their 5
- the vision 5
- and appearance their 4
- appearance of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 20
- Leviticus 11
- Daniel 11
- Genesis 10
- Numbers 4
- Esther 4
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 1:13In contextThen let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
- Daniel 1:15In contextAnd at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
- Daniel 8:15In contextAnd it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
- Daniel 8:16In contextAnd I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
- Daniel 8:26In contextAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
- Daniel 8:27In contextAnd I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
All 82 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַרְאֶה mareh · appearance
1) sight, appearance, vision 1a) sight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision 1b) what is seen 1c) a vision (supernatural) 1d) sight, vision (power of seeing)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appearance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPE'ARANCE, noun
- The act of coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
- The thing seen; a phenomenon; as an appearance in the sky.
- Semblance; apparent likeness.“There was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire” Numbers 9:15
- External show; semblance assumed, in opposition to reality or substance; as, we are often deceived by appearances; he has the appearance of virtue.“For man looketh on the outward appearance” 1 Samuel 16:7
All definitions
- Personal presence; exhibition of the person; as, he made his first appearance at court or on the stage.
- Exhibition of the character; introduction of a person to the public in a particular character, as a person makes his appearance in the world, as a historian, an artist, or an orator.
- Probability; likelihood.
- Presence; mien; figure; as presented by the person, dress or manners; as, the lady made a noble appearance
- A being present in court; a defendant's filing common or special bail to a process.
- An apparition.
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.