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Appearance

רֵוStrong’s H7299

rev

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

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Rev is the Aramaic word usually translated “appearance its” and “appearance his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.”
Daniel 2:31 KJV
Meaning
  1. Appearance
How it's translated
  • and appearance its 1
  • and appearance his 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

רֵו rev · appearance

appearance Aramaic of re.ut (רְאוּת "sight" H7212)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

APPE'ARANCE, noun

  1. The act of coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
  2. The thing seen; a phenomenon; as an appearance in the sky.
  3. Semblance; apparent likeness.“There was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire” Numbers 9:15
  4. External show; semblance assumed, in opposition to reality or substance; as, we are often deceived by appearances; he has the appearance of virtue.“For man looketh on the outward appearance” 1 Samuel 16:7
All definitions
  1. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; as, he made his first appearance at court or on the stage.
  2. Exhibition of the character; introduction of a person to the public in a particular character, as a person makes his appearance in the world, as a historian, an artist, or an orator.
  3. Probability; likelihood.
  4. Presence; mien; figure; as presented by the person, dress or manners; as, the lady made a noble appearance
  5. A being present in court; a defendant's filing common or special bail to a process.
  6. An apparition.

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.