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Hebrew verb · H5027

נָבַט

nabatnaw-bat'

to look

69 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâbaṭ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5027is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 59
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5027

to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care

The King James renders it: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nabat is rendered "to look". It stands 69 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-nine different ways.

The first use

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 15:5הַבֶּט־

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • look10
  • and he looked6
  • and look4
  • he looks3
  • pay attention3
  • they look3
  • do you look at2
  • I will look2
  • look at2
  • to look2
  • you look2
  • and I may look1

and 29 more, 69 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָבַעnabato bubbleUses11
נָבַבnababbe hollowUses4
נָבַחnabachto barkUses1

All 69, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

59 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַבֵּ֣ט3
  • יַבִּ֑יט3
  • אַבִּ֥יט2
  • הַבֶּט־2
  • הַבִּ֙יטוּ֙2
  • וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה2
  • וַיַּבֵּ֤ט2
  • וַתַּבֵּ֥ט2
  • אַבִּ֔יט1
  • אַבִּֽיט׃1
  • בְּ֝הַבִּיטִ֗י1
  • הַבֵּ֥ט1

and 47 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular8HVhv2ms
  • Hc/Vhw3ms5Hc/Vhw3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVhi2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVhi1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVhi3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural4HVhv2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular3HC/Vhc1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he3HVhv2ms/Sh
  • Hc/Vhq3cp2Hc/Vhq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HC/Vhv2mp

Genesis

three uses
  • And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

    Genesis 15:5

    • הַבֶּט־habet-verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look
  • As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

    Genesis 19:17

    • תַּבִּ֣יטtabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you look
  • But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

    Genesis 19:26

    • וַתַּבֵּ֥טvatabetHc/Vhw3fstagged: and she looked

Exodus

two uses
  • Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

    Exodus 3:6

    • מֵהַבִּ֖יטmehabitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from looking
  • Then, whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

    Exodus 33:8

    • וְהִבִּ֙יטוּ֙vehibituHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they looked

Numbers

three uses
  • I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

    Numbers 12:8

    • יַבִּ֑יטyabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he sees
  • So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

    Numbers 21:9

    • וְהִבִּ֛יטvehibitHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he looked
  • He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

    Numbers 23:21

    • הִבִּ֥יטhibitverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has looked at

1 Samuel

four uses
  • You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

    1 Samuel 2:32

    • וְהִבַּטְתָּ֙vehibbataHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will look at
  • But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

    1 Samuel 16:7

    • תַּבֵּ֧טtabetverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you look
  • When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.

    1 Samuel 17:42

    • וַיַּבֵּ֧טvaiyabetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he looked
  • After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence

    1 Samuel 24:8

    • וַיַּבֵּ֤טvaiyabetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he looked

1 Kings

three uses
  • “Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

    1 Kings 18:43

    • הַבֵּ֣טhabetverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look
    • וַיַּבֵּ֔טvaiyabetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he looked
  • And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

    1 Kings 19:6

    • וַיַּבֵּ֕טvaiyabetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he looked

2 Kings

one use
  • Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.

    2 Kings 3:14

    • אַבִּ֥יטʾabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will look

1 Chronicles

one use
  • David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.

    1 Chronicles 21:21

    • וַיַּבֵּ֤טvaiyabetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he looked

Job

five uses
  • The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.

    Job 6:19

    • הִ֭בִּיטוּhibituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they look
  • For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

    Job 28:24

    • יַבִּ֑יטyabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he looks
  • Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

    Job 35:5

    • הַבֵּ֣טhabetverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look at
  • All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.

    Job 36:25

    • יַבִּ֥יטyabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he looks
  • From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

    Job 39:29

    • יַבִּֽיטוּ׃yabituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they look

Psalms

seventeen uses
  • But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

    Psalms 10:14

    • תַּבִּיט֮tabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you pay attention
  • Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

    Psalms 13:3

    • הַבִּ֣יטָֽהhabitahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: pay attention
  • I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

    Psalms 22:17

    • יַ֝בִּ֗יטוּyabituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they look
  • The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.

    Psalms 33:13

    • הִבִּ֣יטhibitverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he looks
  • Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

    Psalms 34:5

    • הִבִּ֣יטוּhibituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people look
  • Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

    Psalms 74:20

    • הַבֵּ֥טhabetverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: pay attention
  • Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

    Psalms 80:14

    • הַבֵּ֣טhabetverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: pay attention
  • Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

    Psalms 84:9

    • וְ֝הַבֵּ֗טvehabetconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and pay attention to
  • You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.

    Psalms 91:8

    • תַבִּ֑יטtabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will look
  • My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

    Psalms 92:11

    • וַתַּבֵּ֥טvatabetHc/Vhw3fstagged: and it has looked
  • He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

    Psalms 94:9

    • יַבִּֽיט׃yabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he see
  • For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

    Psalms 102:19

    • הִבִּֽיט׃hibitverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has looked
  • He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

    Psalms 104:32

    • הַמַּבִּ֣יטhamabitthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the looks
  • Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

    Psalms 119:6

    • בְּ֝הַבִּיטִ֗יbehabitipreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when look I
  • I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

    Psalms 119:15

    • וְ֝אַבִּ֗יטָהveabitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will pay attention to
  • Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

    Psalms 119:18

    • וְאַבִּ֑יטָהveabitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so let me pay attention to
  • Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

    Psalms 142:4

    • הַבֵּ֤יטhabeitverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look

Proverbs

one use
  • Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

    Proverbs 4:25

    • יַבִּ֑יטוּyabituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them look

Isaiah

fifteen uses
  • At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

    Isaiah 5:12

    • יַבִּ֔יטוּyabituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they pay attention to
  • In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

    Isaiah 5:30

    • וְנִבַּ֤טvenibatHc/Vpq3mstagged: and someone will look
  • Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

    Isaiah 8:22

    • יַבִּ֑יטyabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will look
  • For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

    Isaiah 18:4

    • וְאַבִּ֣יטָהveabitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will pay attention
  • He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

    Isaiah 22:8

    • וַתַּבֵּט֙vatabetHc/Vhw2mstagged: and you looked
  • You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

    Isaiah 22:11

    • הִבַּטְתֶּם֙hibatemverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you looked
  • I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

    Isaiah 38:11

    • אַבִּ֥יטʾabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will look at
  • Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

    Isaiah 42:18

    • הַבִּ֥יטוּhabituverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: look
  • “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

    Isaiah 51:1

    • הַבִּ֙יטוּ֙habituverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: look
  • Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

    Isaiah 51:2

    • הַבִּ֙יטוּ֙habituverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: look
  • Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

    Isaiah 51:6

    • וְֽהַבִּ֧יטוּvehabituconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and look
  • I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

    Isaiah 63:5

    • וְאַבִּיט֙veabitHC/Vhu1cstagged: and I may look
  • Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

    Isaiah 63:15

    • הַבֵּ֤טhabetverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look
  • Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

    Isaiah 64:9

    • הַבֶּט־habet-verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: look
  • Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

    Isaiah 66:2

    • אַבִּ֔יטʾabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will look

Lamentations

six uses
  • All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

    Lamentations 1:11

    • וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָהvehabitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: and look
  • Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

    Lamentations 1:12

    • הַבִּ֣יטוּhabituverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: look
  • Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    Lamentations 2:20

    • וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָהvehabitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: and look
  • When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

    Lamentations 3:63

    • הַבִּ֔יטָהhabitahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: look at
  • The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

    Lamentations 4:16

    • לְהַבִּיטָ֑םlehabitampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to pay attention to them
  • Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

    Lamentations 5:1

    • הַבִּ֖יטָהhabeithverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: look

Amos

one use
  • Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

    Amos 5:22

    • אַבִּֽיט׃ʾabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will pay attention to

Jonah

one use
  • At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

    Jonah 2:4

    • לְהַבִּ֔יטlehabitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to look

Habakkuk

five uses
  • Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

    Habakkuk 1:3

    • תַּבִּ֔יטtabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you look at
  • “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

    Habakkuk 1:5

    • וְֽהַבִּ֔יטוּvehabituconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and look
  • Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

    Habakkuk 1:13

    • וְהַבִּ֥יטvehabitconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to look
    • תַבִּיט֙tabitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you look at
  • Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

    Habakkuk 2:15

    • הַבִּ֖יטhabitverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to look

Zechariah

one use
  • Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

    Zechariah 12:10

    • וְהִבִּ֥יטוּvehibituHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will look

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