Lexical Definition

‎מַרְאֶה‎ marʼeh (mar-eh') appearance ^H:N-M
from ‎רָאָה‎

[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.

• 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

1) sight, appearance, vision
1a) sight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision
1b) what is seen
1c) a vision (supernatural)
1d) sight, vision (power of seeing)

See Greek: δόξα · εἶδος · ἰδέα · ὁμοίωμα · ὀπτασία · ὅραμα · ὅρασις · ὀφθαλμός · ὄψις · πρόσωπον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מַרְאֶה‎₁₀₂ noun masculine^{Exod 3:3} sight, appearance, vision; — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ absolute Gen 12:11 +; construct ‎מַרְאֵה‎ Deut 28:34 +; suffix ‎מַרְאֵהוּ‎ Joel 2:4 +, ‎מַרְאֶהָ‎ Lev 13:4 +; apparently plural construct ‎מַרְאֵי‎ Eccl 11:9 (Kö^{ii. 1, 112}), suffix (probably in fact singular Ges^{93 ss}) ‎מַרְאַיִח‎ Song 2:14 (twice in verse), ‎מַרְאֵיהֶן‎ Nah 2:5* +, etc.; —

1. Psalms
a. sight, phenomenon, spectacle Exod 3:3 (J).
b. appearance ‎׳‎‎נֶחְמָד לְמ‎ Gen 2:9 (J) desirable in appearance, ‎׳‎‎גָּדוֺל לְמ‎ Josh 22:10 appearance of man (or woman), Judg 13:6 (twice in verse) (angel), Isa 52:14 (servant of ‎׳‎‎י‎), Song 5:15; Dan 8:15; Dan 10:18 = outward person (opposed to inner man) 1Sam 16:7 visible form Song 2:14 (twice in verse); Dan 1:13 (twice in verse); Dan 1:15 ‎׳‎‎בְּמ‎ Num 12:8 (E; so read ⅏ ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Di, for ᵑ0 ‎מַרְאֶה‎), i.e. in personal presence ( < Ew Pat^{Hpt {abbrev}}‎לֹא בְמ‎); ‎כְּמַרְאֵה סוּסִים מַרְאֵהוּ‎ Joel 2:4 of crocodile Job 41:2* ‎׳‎‎כְּבוֺד י‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Exod 24:17 (P), ‎הַנֶּגַע‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Lev 13:3, ‎אֵֿשׁ‎‎׳‎‎מ‎ Num 9:15; Num 9:16, ‎בָּרָק‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Dan 10:6 +; especially Ezekiel appearance person or of thing (27 t., sometimes redundant), Dan 1:5; Dan 1:13; Dan 1:26; Dan 8:2; Dan 10:1 +, ‎מָתְנָיו‎ ‎׳‎‎מִמּ‎ Dan 1:27 (twice in verse); Dan 8:2 (|| ‎מִמָּתְנָיו‎) of beauty ‎וִיפֵה מַרְאֶה‎ fair of appearance Gen 39:6 (J; +‎יְפֵהתֹֿאַר‎), compare 1Sam 17:42 (read ‎עֶלֶם‎ [q. v.] for ‎עִם‎); feminine ‎׳‎‎(אִשָּׁה) יְפַתמֿ‎ Gen 12:11 (J), Gen 29:17 (E; +‎יְפַת תּאַֹר‎), 2Sam 14:27 of kine ‎׳‎‎יְפוֺת (הַ)מ‎ Gen 41:2; Gen 41:4 (E), opposed to ‎׳‎‎רָעוֺת (הַ)מ‎ vGen 41:3 vGen 41:4, ‎מַרְאֵיהֶן רַע‎ vGen 41:21(all E); of women also ‎׳‎‎טֹבַת מ‎ Gen 24:16; Gen 26:7 (both J), 2Sam 11:2; Esth 1:11; Esth 2:3; Esth 2:7, ‎׳‎‎טוֺבוֺת מ‎ Esth 2:2 of boys ‎׳‎‎טוֺבֵי מ‎ Dan 1:4, compare ‎׳‎‎מ‎ alone in ‎וְנֶחְמְדֵהוּ‎ ‎׳‎‎לֹאמֿ‎ (of suffering servant of ‎׳‎‎י‎) Isa 53:2 ‎׳‎‎אִישׁ מ‎2Sam 23:21 (but read as || 1Chr 11:23 ‎אִישׁ מִדָּה‎ We Dr and others).
c. appearance, sight, vision Num 8:4 (P).

2. in general what is seen, ‎עֵינָיו‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 11:3 i.e. what his outward eyes see (compare 1Sam 16:7 1 b), ‎עֵינֶיהָ‎ ‎׳‎‎לִמ‎ Ezek 23:16, ‎עְינֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה‎‎׳‎‎מ‎ Deut 28:34; Deut 28:67, ‎׳‎‎לְכָלמֿ‎ ‎עֵינֵי הַכֹּהֵן‎ Lev 13:12 (P).

3. specifically a. (supernatural) vision (in Ezekiel, Daniel; often accusative of congnate meaning with verb with ‎ראה‎): Ezek 8:4; Ezek 11:24; Ezek 43:3 (3 t. in verse), read also ‎מַרְאֵה הָרֶכֶב‎ vEzek 43:3 (for ‎מַרְאוֺת‎ see I. ‎מַרְאָה‎ above); ‎׳‎‎בַּמּ‎ Ezek 11:24; Dan 8:16; Dan 8:27; Dan 9:23; Dan 10:1 ‎׳‎‎מ‎ ‎הָעֶרֶב וְהַבֹּקֶר‎ Dan 8:26.

4. sight, vision = power of seeing (and enjoying), late: ‎עֵינַיִם‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Eccl 6:9, ‎הַלֵךְ‎ ‎בְּדַרְּכֵי לִבְּךָ וּבְמַרְאֵי עֵינֶיךָ‎ Eccl 11:9.

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