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

Etymology

from H7200 (רָאָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• apparently
• appearance(-reth)
• as soon as beautiful(-ly)
• countenance
• fair
• favoured
• form
• goodly
• to look (up) on (to)
• look(-eth)
• pattern
• to see
• seem
• sight
• visage
• vision

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.