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title: רֳאִי — looking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֳאִי (7210), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: looking. BDB 1906: looking, seeing, sight Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֳאִי

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«רֳאִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **looking** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 7210 · **BDB:** רֳאִי

### Glosses

a.spectacle (1); of.appearance (1); of.seeing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

looking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

looking, seeing, sight Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] looking, seeing, sight;— seeing, אֵל ר׳ Gn 16:13a a God of seeing (= who sees). appearance (= מַרְאֶה), טוֹב רֹ֑אִי 1 S 16:12; מֵרֹ֑אִי Jb 33:21 without (healthy, fair) appearance. sight, (warning-) spectacle, כְּרֹ֑אִי Na 3:6.—ר׳ Gn 16:13b; Jb 7:8 is Qal Pt. sf.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֳאִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7210/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 33:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.21/)

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יִ֣כֶל בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מֵרֹ֑אִי וְשֻׁפּ֥וּ עַ֝צְמוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א רֻאּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.wastes.away flesh his from sight and they.are.laid.bare bones his \[which\].not they.were.seen

*JPS 1917:* His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones corrode to unsightliness.

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[Nahum 3:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.6/)

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וְהִשְׁלַכְתִּ֥י עָלַ֛יִךְ שִׁקֻּצִ֖ים וְנִבַּלְתִּ֑יךְ וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ כְּרֹֽאִי׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.throw on you detestable.things and I will.treat.you.with.contempt and I will.make.you like a.spectacle

*JPS 1917:* And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.

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