Jastrow: רֳאִי I

רֳאִי I, רוֹאִי m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) sight. Tosef. Hor. II, 5; Gitt. 58ᵃ תינוק … יפה עינים וטוב ר׳ there is a boy in prison … ‘fair of eyes and goodly to look upon’ (I Sam. XVI, 12). Lev. R. s. 20, beg. (ref. to I Sam. l. c.) טוב ר׳ בהלכה וכ׳ ‘goodly to look upon’ in legal decision; whoever looked up to him recalled what he had learned. —2) (v. הֲרֵי I) aspect, nature of a case. B. Kam. 3ᵇ sq. לא ר׳ הקרן … כר׳ השן וכ׳ the case of goring, when nobody is benefited by the damage done, is not analogous to the case of damage by the tooth &c. Zeb. 5ᵃ לא ר׳ זה כר׳ זה … הצד השוה וכ׳ the nature of this (the burnt-offering) is not analogous to the nature of that (the guilt-offering): what is common to both is that &c.; Kidd. 21ᵃ; a. fr.