Ra'ah is the ordinary Hebrew verb for seeing, and Scripture loads it from the first chapter: "And Elohim saw the light, that it was good" (Genesis 1:4). Divine seeing is never passive observation. It is assessment, involvement, verdict. When HaShem sees, something is known through and through, which is why 1 Samuel 16:7 turns the verb on us: man sees the eyes' surface, HaShem sees the lev.

The root builds the whole vocabulary of prophetic sight. The old name for a prophet was ro'eh, the seer (1 Samuel 9:9). The prophet's vision is a mar'ah. The clear seeing Moshe alone received is mar'eh (Numbers 12:8). Even the bronze mirror is a mar'ah, the seeing-tool. One root runs under the seer, the vision, and the mirror, and that shared root is why 1 Corinthians 13:12 can move from mirror to face to face without changing subject. The question the root keeps asking is not whether we see, but at what grade, and the covenant hope is to see as we have been seen, to know as we are fully known.