Quick Definition
to gaze
Strong's Definition
to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.
TWOT Reference: 2429
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁעָה (sha.ah) — to gaze. 1) to look at or to, regard, gaze at or about 1a) (Qal) to gaze at, regard, behold, look about 1b) (Hiphil) to look away, cause gaze to turn away 1c) (Hithpael) to look in dismay, gaze about (in anxiety)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Afraid | verb qal
to look around in fear = action by which humans look around ◄ in fear ► in order to find help
Afraid | verb hit | ≈ ירא
to look at one another in fear = literally: to look; hence: = action by which human look at one another ◄ in fear ► in order to find help
Relief | verb qal, verb hif
to look away (from someone), to leave alone literally: to look (away from someone or something); hence: = action by which deities stop paying attention to humans, with the implication that these humans will find relief from suffering
Willing | verb qal
to pay regard literally: to look (with favor at something); hence: = state in which humans or deities are favorable disposed towards a person or object
Willing | verb qal
to have regard for, pay attention to literally: to look (with favor); hence: = state in which humans are favorably disposed towards an activity
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁעָה vb. gaze (steadily, with interest, etc.) Qal gaze at, regard (with favour)
Hiph. cause thy gaze to turn away from me
Hithp. gaze not about
base