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To look

נָבַטStrong’s H5027

navat (na-vat)

Appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Navat is the Hebrew word usually translated “look”, “looked” and “looks”. It appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
Zechariah 12:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. To look, regard(Piel) to look · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • look 10
  • and he looked 6
  • and look 4
  • they look 3
  • he looks 3
  • pay attention 3
  • you look 2
  • i will look 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 17
  • Isaiah 15
  • Lamentations 6
  • Job 5
  • 1 Samuel 4
  • Habakkuk 4

16 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 67 verses, by book
Exodus 2
3:633:8
Numbers 3
12:821:923:21
1 Kings 2
18:4319:6
2 Kings 1
3:14
1 Chronicles 1
21:21
Proverbs 1
4:25
Amos 1
5:22
Jonah 1
2:4
Habakkuk 4
1:31:51:132:15
Zechariah 1
12:10
Hebrew dictionary

נָבַט navat · to look

1) to look, regard 1a) (Piel) to look 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) tolook 1b2) to regard, show regard to, pay attention to, consider 1b3) to look upon, regard, show regard to

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.