Sight
רֳאִיStrong’s H7210roi (ro-i)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Roi is the Hebrew word usually translated “seeing”, “appearance” and “sight”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?”
Meaning
- Looking, appearance, seeing, sightseeing · appearance · sight, spectacle
How it's translated
- seeing 1
- appearance 1
- sight 1
- from sight 1
- like a spectacle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Nahum 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 16:12And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
- Job 7:8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
- Job 33:21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- Nahum 3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Hebrew dictionary
רֳאִי roi · sight
1) looking, appearance, seeing, sight 1a) seeing 1b) appearance 1c) sight, spectacle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIGHT, noun
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land; to have a sight of a landscape; to lose sight of a ship at sea. Acts 1:9“A cloud received him out of their sight” Acts 1:9
- The faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
- Open view; the state of admitting unobstructed vision; a being within the limits of vision.
- Notice from seeing; knowledge; as a letter intended for the sight of one person only.
All definitions
- Eye; the instrument of seeing.
- An aperture through which objects are to be seen; or something to direct the vision; as the sight of a quadrant; the sight of a fowling piece or a rifle.
- That which is beheld; a spectacle; a show; particularly, something wonderful. Exodus 3:3
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.