Aramaic word · H7299

רֵו

vereveh

appearance

Appearance or look: how something strikes the eye.

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

appearance

Aramaic of re.ut (רְאוּת "sight" H7212)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Daniel 3:25

Range of meaning

Appearance or look: how something strikes the eye.

Against the English

KJV 'form' and others 'appearance'. 'Form' is fine but can suggest bodily shape. The word means 'the look of him'.

Used elsewhere in the period

Only in Daniel 2:31 (the statue's 'appearance was frightening') and here.

Where it appears

Daniel · 2

  1. Daniel 2:31 וְרֵוֵ֖הּ and appearance its

    As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.

  2. Daniel 3:25 וְרֵוֵהּ֙ and appearance his

    “Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

    Here: 'And his appearance.' It means how something looks. The 'his' points ahead to 'the fourth': 'his appearance, the fourth one's'. The only other use is Daniel 2:31, of the statue whose look was terrifying.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.