מַרְאָה
vision
‘vision’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
5 distinct verses where H4759 appears in the Absolute state, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 10:7 הַ/מַּרְאָ֔ה הַ/מַּרְאָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
- Daniel 10:8 הַ/מַּרְאָ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
- Daniel 10:16 בַּ/מַּרְאָה֙ prep det + n c fs Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no strength.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מראה (marʼâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “vision.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 46:2. It turns up in 10 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 30% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4759 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 30%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Vision 6×, Visions 5×
- American Standard Version: Vision 5×, Visions 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vision 6×, Visions 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vision 6×, Visions 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4759 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4759 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4759 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4759 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- vision
- mirror
Word origin
Derived from מראה (marʼeh) (H4758) — sight.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מַרְאֶה
- , m.(b. h.; sight, looks, appearance; color, shade. Yoma 74ᵇ מַרְאֵה עינים באשה the pleasure of looking at one’s wife. Tosef. Neg. I, 2 מ׳ ראשון the first inspection of a leprous affection (Lev. XIII, 3), מ׳ שני the second (ib. 5) &c. Ib. 4 כל מ׳ לבן all shades of white; מ׳ סיבות grey color. Ib. 5 מ׳ גבוה the appearance of an elevation; כמ׳ צל בחמה as the appearance of a shade thrown on a sunlit object; Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. I; a. fr.—Pl. מַרְאוֹת (with pronom. suffix) מַרְאָיו, מַרְאֶיהָ &c. Neg. I, 1. Sifra l. c., Par. 2, ch. II במראיו its retaining original color; כהה ממראיו fainter than its original color. Bekh. VII, 5; v. חָשׁוּךְ; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 13:3
מַרְאָה
- preced.)
- 1. mirror. Kel. XIV, 6 שעשה בו מ׳ (not שעשאה) one part of which he polished to serve as a mirror. Tosef. Sabb. XIII (XIV), 16; a. fr.—Pl. מַרְאוֹת. Gen. R. s. 4 מ׳ גדולות magnifying mirrors; מ׳ קטנות diminishing mirrors; a. e.
- 2. picture.—Pl. as ab. Gen. R. s. 73 היה לך מ׳ בתוך ביתך didst thou have pictures in thy house? שחורה … או לבנה of black persons or of white?
מֻרְאָה
- , v. מוּרְאָה
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H4759 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/מַרְא֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 8:3 | 2 |
| בַּ/מַּרְאָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:16 | 2 |
| בְּ/מַרְאֹ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 46:2 | 1 |
| בְּ/מַרְאֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 38:8 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּרְאָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:7 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּרְאָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:7 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּרְאָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 3:15 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּרְאָ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:8 | 1 |
| מַרְא֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 1:1 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
