navat · look

What it means

navat (נָבַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “look”.

Intently, gaze; regard, pay attention to.

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. To fix the eyes carefully on something, to see it well or take it into account.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To look intently, fix one's eyes on something; also to consider, take into account. It is stronger than seeing: turning the eyes toward something on purpose.

• “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars” Genesis 15:5
• Looking back Genesis 19:26Genesis 19:17
• Looking to the bronze serpent and living Numbers 21:9
• YHWH looks from the heavens Psalms 33:13Psalms 80:14
• Not looking at the appearance 1 Samuel 16:7

How we translate it

“Look” 48 times, “looked” 13, “looks” 3, to keep it apart from רָאָה, which is translated “see”. In 1 Samuel 16:7 the two are seen together: “Do not look at his appearance”, and then “the human being sees {what is} before the eyes”.

How it is translated

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

• look ×48
• looked ×13
• looks ×3
• gazed ×1
• he gazes on ×1
• observe ×1
• regard ×1
• watch ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×3
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×17
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×15
• Lamentations×6
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Habakkuk×5
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 15:5

  He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And he said to him, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 19:17

  When they had brought them outside, he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.”

• Genesis 19:26

  But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

• Exodus 3:6

  And he said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim.

• Exodus 33:8

  And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each man at the entrance of his tent, and watch after Moses until he went into the tent.

• 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?”

• Numbers 21:9

  So Moses made a serpent of bronze and set it on the pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look to the serpent of bronze and live.

• Numbers 23:21

  He has not looked on wickedness in Jacob, and he has not seen trouble in Israel. YHWH his Elohim is with him, and the acclamation of a king is among them.

• 1 Samuel 2:32

  And you will look on the distress of the dwelling place in all the good that he does to Israel; and there will not be an old man in your house all the days.

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  Afterward David arose and went out from the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.

• 1 Kings 18:43

  He said to his young man, “Go up, please, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back,” seven times.

• 1 Kings 19:6

  He looked, and there, at his head, was a cake baked on hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

• 2 Kings 3:14

  Elisha said, “As YHWH Tsevaot lives, before whom I stand, if it were not for my regard for Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or see you.

• 1 Chronicles 21:21

  David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and he went out from the threshing floor and bowed down to David with his face to the ground.

• Job 6:19

  The caravans of Tema looked; the companies of Sheba hoped for them.

• Job 28:24

  For he looks to the ends of the earth; under all the heavens he sees.

• Job 35:5

  Look at the heavens and see, and perceive the clouds, that are higher than you.

• Job 36:25

  Every human being has gazed on it; the mortal looks at it from afar.

• Job 39:29

  From there it searches out food; from afar its eyes look.

• Psalms 10:14

  You have seen it, for you look at suffering and grief to put it in your hand; to you the helpless abandons himself; you have been the helper of the orphan.

• Psalms 13:3

  Look at me, answer me, YHWH my Elohim; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

• Psalms 22:17

  I count all my bones; they look, they gaze at me.

• Psalms 33:13

  From the heavens YHWH looked; he saw all human beings.

• Psalms 34:5

  They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces will not be abashed.

• Psalms 74:20

  Look to the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of abodes of violence.

• Psalms 80:14

  Elohim Tsevaot, return, please; look from the heavens and see, and attend to this vine,

• Psalms 84:9

  Our shield, see, Elohim, and look on the face of your anointed.

• Psalms 91:8

  Only with your eyes will you look, and the recompense of the wicked you will see.

• Psalms 92:11

  And my eye has looked on those who lie in wait for me; of the evildoers who rise against me my ears will hear.

• Psalms 94:9

  He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not look?

• Psalms 102:19

  For he looked down from the height of his holiness; YHWH from the heavens to the earth gazed,

• Psalms 104:32

  who looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they smoke.

• Psalms 119:6

  Then I will not be ashamed when I look to all your commandments.

• Psalms 119:15

  On your precepts I will reflect, and I will look to your paths.

• Psalms 119:18

  Uncover my eyes, and I will look at wonders from your instruction.

• Psalms 142:4

  Look to the right and see: there is no one who recognizes me; escape has perished from me; there is no one who inquires after my soul.

• Proverbs 4:25

  Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids be directed straight before you.

• Isaiah 5:12

  And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.

And 29 more times.