רֳאִי rŏʼîy — sight, whether abstractly (vision) or concretely (a spectacle)
Translated in the KJV as gazingstock, look to, see.
from H7200; sight, whether abstractly (vision) or concretely (a spectacle).
rŏʼîy in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
רֹ֑אִי Job 7:8 Participle (active), masculine singular
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
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 ›