חֲוָה
to show
also: interpret, explain, inform, tell fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct 5 times (36%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2324 appears — 13 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 13 verses
- Daniel 2:4 נְחַוֵּֽא Piel impf 1cp Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:6 תְּֽהַחֲוֺ֔ן הַחֲוֺֽ/נִי Hiphil impf 2mp Hiphil impv 2mp + sfx pers 1cs But if you show the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 2:7 נְהַחֲוֵֽה Hiphil impf 1cp They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:9 תְּהַחֲוֻנַּֽ/נִי Hiphil impf 2mp + sfx pers 1cs But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 2:10 לְ/הַחֲוָיָ֑ה prep + Hiphil inf.cs The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king's matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
- Daniel 2:11 יְחַוִּנַּ֖/הּ Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
- Daniel 2:16 לְ/הַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה prep + Hiphil inf.cs Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:24 אֲחַוֵּֽא Piel impf 1cs Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:27 לְ/הַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה prep + Hiphil inf.cs Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;
- Daniel 4:2 לְ/הַחֲוָיָֽה prep + Hiphil inf.cs It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
- Daniel 5:7 יְחַוִּנַּ֔/נִי Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:12 יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה Hiphil impf 3ms because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:15 לְ/הַחֲוָיָֽה prep + Hiphil inf.cs Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חוא — transliterated chăvâʼ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to show.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Daniel 2:4. The lexical range runs to 3 senses — “to show” plus “interpret”, “explain”, and “inform”. See the sense tree, 13-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2324 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 13 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 13 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shew 6×, We will shew 2×
- American Standard Version: Show 6×, We will show 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: We will give 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Show 2×, We will show 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2324 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2324 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2324 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2324 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to show, interpret, explain, inform, tell, declare
- (Pael) to show, interpret
- (Aphel) to show
Word origin
[ חֲוָה ] vb. Pa. Haph. declare
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חוה (châvâh) (H2331) — to declare.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֵוָא
- , v. חֵיוָא
חֲוָא
- , v. חֲוֵי
חוי ²
- Pa. חַוֵּי same, to show;to tell. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXIV, 1. Targ. Jud. IV, 12; a. fr.—Y. Kil. VII, 31ᵃ top ח׳ סלעא וכ׳ (not סלעיה) showed a Sela to R. E. (for examination).
- same. Targ. Y. Deut. l. c.; a. e.—B. Kam. 100ᵃ א׳ ליה דינרא וכ׳ showed a Denar to R. E. (v. supra). Ib. 116ᵇ דאחוי אַחְיָיֵי (not אחוי) he pointed the field out (to the officials for confiscation). Ib. ואמרי ליה אַחְוִי ארעתיה (not אחויי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 70) and the officials said to him show (us) his field. Snh. 107ᵇ Mss. a. old eds. (omitted in later ed.) א׳ ליה בידיה he made a sign to him with his hand; a. fr.—Y. Yeb. XII, 12ᶜ top … ר׳ מַחֲוֵי וכ׳ R. Z. told R. Ba that &c. [Targ. II Esth. II, 21 מחוי חיויא, read with ed. Lag. ויִמְחֵיה, v. מְחָא II.]
- to be announced; to be told. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 42. Targ. Ps. LXXXVIII, 12 (not די תחוי).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H2324 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/הַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 2:16 | 2 |
| לְ/הַחֲוָיָֽה | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 4:2 | 2 |
| אֲחַוֵּֽא | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Daniel 2:24 | 1 |
| הַחֲוֺֽ/נִי | Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 2:6 | 1 |
| יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:12 | 1 |
| יְחַוִּנַּ֔/נִי | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:7 | 1 |
| יְחַוִּנַּ֖/הּ | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:11 | 1 |
| לְ/הַחֲוָיָ֑ה | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 2:10 | 1 |
| נְהַחֲוֵֽה | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural | Daniel 2:7 | 1 |
| נְחַוֵּֽא | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural | Daniel 2:4 | 1 |
| תְּֽהַחֲוֺ֔ן | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 2:6 | 1 |
| תְּהַחֲוֻנַּֽ/נִי | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 2:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2324, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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