- נבט
- נָבַט(b. h.; cmp. בטט, v. Friedr. Del. Proleg. p. 98) to burst forth, to shine. Hif. הִבִּיט 1) to illumine. Targ. II Esth. 1:2 (in an enigma about nafta) נשפך כמים ומַבִּיט לבית it is poured out like water and illumines the house. 2) (cmp. הֵצִיץ fr. צִיץ) to look. Yalk. Gen. 76 (ref. to Gen. 15:5) אין הַבֵּטוכ׳ (Gen. R. s. 44 הַבָּטָה q. v.). Pesik. R. s. 21 (read:) האיקונין הזו … מַבִּיטִים בה … בי היא מַבֶּטֶת a thousand people look at a portrait, every one says, it is looking at me. Ib. ולהַבִּיט בכל אחד ואחדוכ׳ and for the Lord to look at every one of the Israelites and say Ib. מה לך מביט באלו why dost thou look up to those men?; a. fr. Pi. נִיבֵּט same, to have a vision. Snh.101b (play on נבט) שני׳ ולא ראה he (Nebat) had a vision but did not see (interpret it properly); ib. שלשה נִבְּטוּוכ׳; Yalk. Kings 196.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.