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Sight

רְאוּתStrong’s H7212

reut (re-ut)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Reut is the Hebrew word usually translated “sight of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?”
Ecclesiastes 5:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) look
How it's translated
  • sight of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ecclesiastes 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    רְאוּת reut · sight

    (Qal) look Aramaic equivalent: rev (רֵו "appearance" H7299)

    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

    1. 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
    2. The faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
    3. Open view; the state of admitting unobstructed vision; a being within the limits of vision.
    4. Notice from seeing; knowledge; as a letter intended for the sight of one person only.
    All definitions
    1. Eye; the instrument of seeing.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.