נָבַט nâbaṭ

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 15:5 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 19:17 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 19:26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Exodus 3:6 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 33:8 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.
• Numbers 12:8 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 21:9 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 23:21 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.
• 1 Samuel 2:32 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 16:7 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 17:42 When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
• 1 Samuel 24:8 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 Kings 18:43 “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 19:6 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.
• 2 Kings 3:14 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.
• 1 Chronicles 21:21 David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.
• Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
• Job 28:24 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
• Job 35:5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
• Job 36:25 All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.
• Job 39:29 From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
• Psalms 10:14 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 13:3 Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
• Psalms 22:17 I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
• Psalms 33:13 The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.
• Psalms 34:5 Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.
• Psalms 74:20 Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
• Psalms 80:14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
• Psalms 84:9 Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.
• Psalms 91:8 You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.
• Psalms 92:11 My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.
• Psalms 94:9 He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
• Psalms 102:19 For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
• Psalms 104:32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
• Psalms 119:6 Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
• Psalms 119:15 I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
• Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
• Psalms 142:4 Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
• Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
• Isaiah 5:12 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 5:30 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 8:22 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 18:4 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 22:8 He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
• Isaiah 22:11 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 38:11 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 42:18 Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
• Isaiah 51:1 “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 51:2 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 51:6 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 63:5 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 63:15 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 64:9 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 66:2 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.
• Lamentations 1:11 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 1:12 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 2:20 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 3:63 When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
• Lamentations 4:16 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 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!