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To see

רָאָהStrong’s H7200

raah (ra-ah)

Appears in 1,200 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Raah is the Hebrew word usually translated “saw”, “see” and “have seen”. It appears in 1,200 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.”
Daniel 1:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. To see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Pual) to be seen · (Hiphil) · (Hophal)
How it's translated
  • and he saw 123
  • see 58
  • and see 58
  • to see 50
  • i have seen 45
  • and i saw 43
  • and they saw 42
  • seeing 41

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 132
  • Psalms 99
  • Exodus 80
  • Isaiah 76
  • 1 Samuel 67
  • Deuteronomy 66

38 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 1,200 verses, by book
Ruth 2
1:182:18
Ezra 1
3:12
Joel 1
2:28
Obadiah 2
1:121:13
Jonah 2
3:104:5
Nahum 2
3:53:7
Haggai 1
2:3
Malachi 3
1:53:23:18
Hebrew dictionary

רָאָה raah · to see

: see/show 1) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to see 1a2) to see, perceive 1a3) to see, have vision 1a4) to look at, see, regard, look after, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out 1a5) to see, observe, consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish 1a6) to look at, gaze at 1a7) to provide, choose 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to appear, present oneself 1b2) to be seen 1b3) to be visible 1c) (Pual) to be seen 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cause to see, show 1d2) to cause to look intently at, behold, cause to gaze at 1e) (Hophal) …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SEE, noun.

  1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
  2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
  3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
  4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
All definitions and other forms of “see”
  1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.“I will now turn aside and see this great sight” Exodus 3:3“We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good” Judges 18:9
  2. To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to“See that ye fall not out by the way” Genesis 45:24
  3. To discover; to descry; to understand.
  4. To converse or have intercourse with.
  5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend.
  6. To attend; to remark or notice.
  7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
  8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.“I turned to see the voice that spoke with me” Revelation 1:12
  9. To feel; to suffer; to experience.“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil” Psalms 90:15“If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death” John 8:51
  10. To know; to learn.“Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren” Genesis 37:14
  11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend.
  12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.“I see another law in my members” Romans 7:23
  13. To beware.“See thou do it not. 9” Revelation 19:10
  14. To know by revelation.“The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” Isaiah 2:1
  15. To have faith in and reliance on.“Seeing him who is invisible” Hebrews 11:27
  16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8

SEE, verb intransitive

  1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight.
  2. To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
  3. To eximane or inquere.
  4. To be attentive.
  5. To have full understanding.“But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth” John 9:41

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.