na.khar denotes identifying someone or something, and can extend to acknowledging, noticing, or showing partiality.

The attested use most often concerns identifying a person, voice, object, sound, or appearance; it also marks acknowledging or taking notice of someone and, in judicial settings, recognizing persons with partiality. A smaller set of clauses concerns being recognizable or making oneself known.

1. Identify a person, object, voice, or appearance · dominant

   In Genesis 37:32 the imperative asks a father to identify a tunic, and Genesis 37:33 reports his identification of it. The sequential imperfect forms in Genesis 42:7 and Genesis 42:8 distinguish Joseph's recognition of his brothers from their failure to recognize him; 1 Samuel 26:17 similarly concerns Saul recognizing David's voice.

   Genesis 37:32Genesis 37:33Genesis 42:7Genesis 42:81 Samuel 26:17Job 2:12
2. Acknowledge or take notice of someone · common

   Deuteronomy 21:17 uses an imperfect in the instruction to acknowledge the firstborn son by giving him the prescribed double portion. In Ruth 2:10 and Ruth 2:19, forms of the verb occur in the woman's question about being noticed and in the blessing on the man who took notice of her; Jeremiah 24:5 places a first-person imperfect in the declaration concerning the exiles of Judah.

   Deuteronomy 21:17Ruth 2:10Ruth 2:19Jeremiah 24:5Isaiah 63:16
3. Recognize persons with partiality · occasional

   Deuteronomy 1:17 and Deuteronomy 16:19 prohibit recognition of persons in judgment, where the APB renders the surrounding instructions as not showing partiality or not recognizing faces. Proverbs 24:23 and Proverbs 28:21 likewise place the infinitive absolute in statements that partiality in judgment is not good.

   Deuteronomy 1:17Deuteronomy 16:19Job 34:19Proverbs 24:23Proverbs 28:21
4. Be recognizable or make oneself known · rare

   Isaiah 61:9 uses a plural imperfect where those who see the offspring recognize them as a blessed seed. Proverbs 20:11 has a Hithpael imperfect in the statement that a youth makes himself known by his deeds, while Lamentations 4:8 uses a Niphal perfect for people no longer recognized in the streets.

   Isaiah 61:9Proverbs 20:11Lamentations 4:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly renders the relevant clauses with “recognize” or “identified,” but also uses “acknowledge,” “take notice,” and “show partiality” where the surrounding clause calls for those presentations. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings are contextual rather than fixed equivalents.