mare · appearance, sight

What it means

mare (מַרְאֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “appearance, sight”.

What is seen: the look or appearance of something; also a vision.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The appearance of someone or something: how it looks, beautiful or ugly.
2. What is seen; how something appears before the eyes.
3. A vision God gives, which must be understood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

What is seen: the look or appearance of something or someone; also a vision. It comes from רָאָה, “to see” (H7200). BDB: a view, whether the act of seeing, the appearance or the vision.

• A person's appearance: “beautiful in appearance” Genesis 12:11Genesis 39:6
• “Do not look at his appearance”: what human beings see 1 Samuel 16:7
• What is pleasing to the sight Genesis 2:9
• The appearance of the glory of YHWH Exodus 24:17Ezekiel 1:28
• A sight, a vision Exodus 3:3Daniel 8:16

How we translate it

“Appearance” 76 times, “vision” 11, “sight” 8, “form” 2… In the laws of leprosy too it is “appearance” (“the appearance of the sore {is} deeper than the skin”, Leviticus 13:3). This edition sets חָזוֹן and מַרְאֶה both = “vision” when a vision is meant (Daniel 8:16). In Numbers 12:8, “plainly”: YHWH speaks with Moses “plainly, and not in riddles”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• appearance ×76
• vision ×11
• sight ×8
• form ×2
• see ×2
• be seen ×1
• handsome ×1
• plainly ×1
• they appear ×1
• visions ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• Esther×4
• Job×2
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×37
• Daniel×12
• Joel×2
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 12:11

  When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 24:16

  The girl was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance.”

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 39:6

  He left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the bread that he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

• Genesis 41:2

  And look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, beautiful in appearance and fat in flesh, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

• Genesis 41:4

  The cows ugly in appearance and thin in flesh ate up the seven cows beautiful in appearance and fat. Then Pharaoh woke up.

• Genesis 41:21

  They went into their bellies, but it could not be known that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ugly just as at the beginning. Then I woke up.

• Exodus 3:3

  And Moses said, “Let me turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn up.”

• Exodus 24:17

  The appearance of the glory of YHWH was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:12

  And if the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one with the sore from his head to his feet, as far as the priest’s eyes can see,

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:32

  The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

• Leviticus 13:34

  The priest shall examine the ringworm on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; he shall wash his garments and be clean.

• Leviticus 13:43

  The priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the sore is reddish white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

• Leviticus 14:37

  He shall examine the mark, and if the mark in the walls of the house is greenish or reddish hollows, and they appear lower than the wall,

• Numbers 8:4

  And this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its blossoms it was hammered work. According to the vision that YHWH had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

• Numbers 9:15

  And on the day the dwelling was set up, the cloud covered the dwelling, the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there was over the dwelling something like the appearance of fire until morning.

• Numbers 9:16

  So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

• Numbers 12:8

  Mouth to mouth I speak with him, plainly, and not in riddles; and he gazes on the form of YHWH. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

• Deuteronomy 28:34

  And you will be driven mad by the sight of your eyes that you will see.

• Deuteronomy 28:67

  In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening you will say, “If only it were morning!” because of the dread of your heart with which you will dread, and because of the sight of your eyes that you will see.

• Joshua 22:10

  And they came to the regions of the Jordan that are in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to be seen.

• Judges 13:6

  Then the woman came and said to her husband, “A man of Elohim came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of Elohim, very fearsome. And I did not ask him where he was from, and his name he did not tell me.

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  YHWH said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have despised him; for it is not what the human being sees: the human being sees what is before the eyes, but YHWH sees the heart.”

• 1 Samuel 17:42

  The Philistine looked and saw David, and he despised him, for he was a young man, and ruddy, with a beautiful appearance.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  And it happened, at the time of evening, that David rose from his bed and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

• 2 Samuel 14:27

  There were born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman beautiful in appearance.

• 2 Samuel 23:21

  He struck an Egyptian man, a man of imposing appearance. In the hand of the Egyptian was a spear, and he went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the peoples and the officials her beauty; for she was of good appearance.

• Esther 2:2

  And the king’s young men who served him said, “Let them seek for the king young women, virgins, of good appearance;

• Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

• Esther 2:7

  And he was bringing up Hadassah, that is, Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had no father or mother; and the young woman was of beautiful form and of good appearance; and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

And 64 more times.