Word study
Clearly
7 Hebrew and 6 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “clearly”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “clearly” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- רָאָה rââhseetranslated this way 1 time of its 1,266 uses · Strong’s H7200Verb · Translated: see 354, saw 285, seen 124, look 45Full study and all 1,181 verses →
Exodus 10:10 Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.
- מַרְאֶה marehsight, appearance, visiontranslated this way 1 time of its 76 uses · Strong’s H4758Noun · Translated: appearance 16, vision 8, appear 6, sight 5Full study and all 63 verses →
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?”
- נָגַד nâgadbe conspicuoustranslated this way 1 time of its 360 uses · Strong’s H5046Verb · Translated: tell 83, told 67, reported 31, declare 18Full study and all 339 verses →
Joshua 9:24 The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
- גָּלָה gâlâhuncover, removetranslated this way 1 time of its 170 uses · Strong’s H1540Verb · Translated: revealed 14, uncovered 13, exiled 12, sexual relations 11Full study and all 161 verses →
1 Samuel 2:27 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
- צַח tsachdazzling, glowing, cleartranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s H6703Adjective · Translated: dazzling 1, like shimmering 1, clearly 1, searing 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Isaiah 32:4 The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
- בִּינָה bînâhunderstandingtranslated this way 1 time of its 36 uses · Strong’s H998Noun · Translated: understanding 27, insight 3, understand 2Full study and all 36 verses →
Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
- בָּאַר bâarmake distinct, plaintranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s H874Verb · Translated: explain 1, distinctly 1, clearly 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
Greek words (New Testament)
- διαβλέπω diablépōI see through, see clearlytranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G1227Verb · Translated: see clearly 2, opened 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Luke 6:42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- φανερόω phaneróōI make clear, visible, or manifesttranslated this way 2 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s G5319Verb · Translated: revealed 17, appeared 6, appears 4, made 3Full study and all 43 verses →
John 3:21 But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
Colossians 4:4 Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should.
- τηλαυγῶς tēlaugōsclearly, distinctlytranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G5081Adverb · Translated: clearly 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Mark 8:25 Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.
- καθοράω kathoráōI see clearlytranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G2529Verb · Translated: clearly seen 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
- δῆλος dēlosclear, manifest, evidenttranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G1212Adjective · Translated: away 1, clearly 1, clear 1Full study and all 3 verses →
1 Corinthians 15:27 For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
- προγράφω prográphōI write previouslytranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s G4270Verb · Translated: written in the past 1, clearly portrayed 1, already written 1, designated 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.