חֲזָהאֵל
Hazael
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hazael’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2371 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 2 distinct verses. 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.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 19:15 חֲזָאֵ֛ל n Proper Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
- 1 Kings 19:17 חֲזָאֵ֖ל n Proper It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill.
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.
חזאל — transliterated Chăzâʼêl — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Hazael.” Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Kings (76% of all occurrences). With 21 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at 1 Kings 19:15, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2371 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 16 verses 76%
- 1 Kings 2 verses 10%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 10%
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 21 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 19 verses · 90%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 10%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Hazael 20×, Against hazael 3×
- American Standard Version†: Hazael 17×, Against hazael 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Hazael 21×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Hazael 22×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2371 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2371 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H2371 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H2371 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 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.
- Hazael = "one who sees God"
- a king of Syria…
Word origin
n.pr.m. (Ēl sees; Assyrian Ḫazaʾilu COT Gloss) king of Aramaic 2 K 8:8, 13, 15, v 29 = 2 Ch 22:6; contr. חֲזָאֵל 1 K 19:15, 17 2 K 8:9, 12, v 28 = 2 Ch 22:5, 2 K 9:14, 15; 10:32; 12:18(×2), 19; 13:3(×2), 22, 24, 25; בֵּית חֲזָאֵל Am 1:4.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חזה (châzâh) (H2372) — to see.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H2371 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲזָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 19:17 | 5 |
| חֲזָהאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:6 | 3 |
| חֲזָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:12 | 2 |
| חֲזָאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 13:3 | 2 |
| חֲזָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 12:17 | 2 |
| וַֽ/חֲזָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 13:22 | 1 |
| חֲזָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:4 | 1 |
| חֲזָאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 19:15 | 1 |
| חֲזָאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:5 | 1 |
| חֲזָאֵל֮ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:9 | 1 |
| חֲזָהאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:13 | 1 |
| חֲזָהאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:8 | 1 |
| חֲזָהאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:28 | 1 |
| לַֽ/חֲזָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 12:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2371, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- הזה hâzâh H1957 to dream
- חזא chăzâʼ H2370 to see
- חזה châzeh H2373 breast
- חזה chôzeh H2374 seer
- חזון châzôwn H2377 vision
- חזות châzôwth H2378 visions
- חזות châzûwth H2380 vision
- חזיון chizzâyôwn H2384 vision
- מחזה machăzeh H4236 vision
- מחזה mechĕzâh H4237 window
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- חזו Chăzôw H2375 Hazo
- חזיאל Chăzîyʼêl H2381 Haziel
- חזיה Chăzâyâh H2382 Hazaiah
- חזיון Chezyôwn H2383 Hezion
- יחזיאל Yachăzîyʼêl H3166 Jahaziel
- יחזיה Yachzᵉyâh H3167 Jahaziah
- מחזיאות Machăzîyʼôwth H4238 Mahazioth
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 19 — not the complete family. 7 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hazael). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Whom God beholds, an officer of Ben-hadad II., king of Syria, who ultimately came to the throne, according to the word of the Lord to Elijah (1 Kings 19:15), after he had put the king to death (2 Kings 8:15). His interview with Elisha is mentioned in 2 Kings 8. The Assyrians soon after his accession to the throne came against him and defeated him with very great loss; and three years afterwards again invaded Syria, but on this occasion Hazael submitted to them. He then turned his arms against Israel, and ravaged "all the land of Gilead," etc. (2 Kings 10:33), which he held in a degree of subjection to him (13:3-7, 22). He aimed at the subjugation also of the kingdom of Judah, when Joash obtained peace by giving him "all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king's house" (2 Kings 12:18; 2 Chr. 24:24). He reigned about forty-six years (B.C. 886-840), and was succeeded on the throne by his son Ben-hadad (2 Kings 13:22-25), who on several occasions was defeated by Jehoash, the king of Israel, and compelled to restore all the land of Israel his father had taken.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(whom God sees), a king of Damascus who reigned from about B.C. 886 to B.C. 840. He appears to have been previously a person in a high position at the court of Ben-hadad, and was sent by his master to Elisha to inquire if he would recover from the malady under which he was suffering. Elisha's answer led to the murder of Ben-hadad by his ambitious servant, who forthwith mounted the throne. (2 Kings 8:7-15) He was soon engaged in war with the kings of Judah and Israel for the possession of the city of Ramoth-gilead. Ibid. (2 Kings 8:28) Towards the close of the reign of Jehu, Hazael led the Syrians against the Israelites (about B.C. 860), whom he "smote in all their coasts," (2 Kings 10:32) thus accomplishing the prophecy of Elisha. Ibid . (2 Kings 8:12) At the close of his life, having taken Gath, ibid. (2 Kings 12:17) comp. Amos 6:2 He proceeded to attack Jerusalem, (2 Chronicles 24:24) and was about to assault the city when Joash bribed him to retire. (2 Kings 12:18) Hazael appears to have died about the year B.C. 840, (2 Kings 13:24) having reigned forty-six years.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that sees God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 21 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 21 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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