R-A-H – ‘envision; ken’

Moses continues to make the Being of beings, the universal Creator, speak in the future, by turning the expression of his will into the past by means of the convertible sign. The verb ראות which is used by Moses on this occasion, signifies not only to see, but to ken, by directing voluntarily the visual ray upon an object. The root רו or רי …develops every idea of of a stroke or ray…It is joined to the root או or אי , expressing the goal, the place, the object toward which the will inclines…and forms with it the compound ראי , ראת or ראית , that is to say, the vision, the action of seeing and the very object of this action. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet p. 34)

7200. raah, raw-aw´; a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)