נָבַט

H5027, nabat, is a Hebrew verb for looking, gazing, considering, or directing attentive regard toward someone or something. Its passages show that seeing is never merely mechanical. Abram looks toward the heavens as the Lord speaks a promise. Israelites bitten by serpents look at the bronze serpent and live. Samuel is warned not to consider Eliab's appearance because human beings see outwardly while the Lord sees the heart. Sufferers ask God to look, consider, and respond; worshipers look to Him in trust; rebels look to weapons while failing to look to their Maker. The same verb can also describe contemptuous or predatory gazing.

H5027 therefore concerns directed attention whose object and moral purpose matter. A gaze can receive God's promise, acknowledge need, discern wrongly, seek refuge, overlook God, stare at suffering without compassion, or exploit another person's vulnerability. The verb does not make every act of looking faithful, nor does it mean that attention automatically becomes care.

Faithful teaching should ask who looks, at whom or what, from what posture, and with what result. The Lord's seeing is not limited by outward appearance, while human sight can be corrected by His word. Calls for God to look upon suffering are prayers for His attentive intervention, not evidence that He was previously ignorant. H5027 trains readers to turn their attention toward God, truth, and afflicted neighbors without collapsing regard into voyeurism, appearance-based judgment, or passive observation.

H5027 directs the gaze toward promise, deliverance, human appearance, suffering, God Himself, misplaced security, and exploited vulnerability. The moral force lies in what is regarded and how that attention responds.