מַרְאֶה
marʼeh · mar-eh'
a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7200 (רָאָה);
a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
- a view (the act of seeing)
- also, an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness
- often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] apparently, appearance(-reth), [idiom] as soon as beautiful(-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look(-eth), pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › strength, the leader › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of strength, the leader that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַרְאֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
103 occurrences · 103 OT · 0 NT · 64 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- as the appearance9 · 19%
- favoured7 · 15%
- to look upon4 · 8%
- the appearance3 · 6%
- countenance2 · 4%
- the vision2 · 4%
- of the vision2 · 4%
- as it were the appearance2 · 4%
- and in sight1 · 2%
- according unto the pattern1 · 2%
- in sight1 · 2%
- and the sight1 · 2%
- appeareth1 · 2%
- looketh1 · 2%
- be not in sight1 · 2%
- sight1 · 2%
- and, behold, it be not in sight1 · 2%
- and, behold, if it be in sight1 · 2%
- and it be in sight1 · 2%
- nor be in sight1 · 2%
- it, behold, it be in sight1 · 2%
- which in sight1 · 2%
- but they were still1 · 2%
- it by day, and the appearance1 · 2%
- to the sight1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.