roe · seer

What it means

roe (רֹאֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seer”.

"one who sees", an older name for a prophet (1 Samuel 9:9); in one place it means 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. What the prophet beholds from God.
2. "One who sees", an old name for a prophet.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• seer ×5
• vision ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×5
• Isaiah×1

• 1 Samuel 9:9

  (Formerly in Israel, this is what a man said when he went to inquire of Elohim: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)

• 1 Samuel 9:11

  As they were going up the ascent to the city, they found young women going out to draw water, and they said to them, “Is the seer here?”

• 1 Samuel 9:18

  And Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate and said, “Tell me, please, where is the house of the seer?”

• 1 Samuel 9:19

  And Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up ahead of me to the high place, and you shall eat with me today; and in the morning I will send you off and tell you all that is in your heart.

• Isaiah 28:7

  But these also stagger with wine and stray with intoxicating drink; priest and prophet stagger with intoxicating drink; they are swallowed by wine, they stray because of intoxicating drink; they stagger in vision, they stumble in giving verdict.

And 1 more times.