Seer
רֹאֶהStrong’s H7203roeh (ro-eh)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Roeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “seer”, “vision” and “seers”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)”
Meaning
- Seer, prophet
- (prophetic) vision
How it's translated
- the seer 10
- in the vision 1
- to the seers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Isaiah 2
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 9:11And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
- 1 Samuel 9:18Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house is.
- 1 Samuel 9:19And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
- 1 Chronicles 26:28And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
- 1 Chronicles 29:29Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
Hebrew dictionary
רֹאֶה roeh · seer
seer, prophet
רֹאֶה roeh · vision
(prophetic) vision
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEER, noun.
[from see.]
- One who sees; as a seer of visions.
- A prophet; a person who forsees future events.
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.