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Exodus 24:17
“And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מַרְאֶהmarʼeh · mar-eh'
H4758 · Hebrew
H4758 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- from H7200 (רָאָה);
- 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.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מַרְאֵה֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 104 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:9Genesis 12:11Genesis 24:16Genesis 26:7Genesis 29:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַרְאֶה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.