Mirror
רְאִיStrong’s H7209rei (re-i)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rei is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a mirror”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?”
Meaning
- Mirror
How it's translated
- like a mirror 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רְאִי rei · mirror
mirror
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mirror” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIR'ROR, noun
[Latin miror, to admire.]
- A looking glass; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
- A pattern; an exemplar; that on which men ought to fix their eyes; that which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen.
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.