רֹאֶה rôʼeh — a seer (as often rendered)
Translated in the KJV as vision.
active participle of H7200; a seer (as often rendered); but also (abstractly) a vision.
rôʼeh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 5
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house is.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›