חָזֶה
breast
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 6 times (46%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 5 times (38%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (15%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2373 appears — 12 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 29:26 הֶֽ/חָזֶ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c ms "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.
- Exodus 29:27 חֲזֵ֣ה n c ms cs You shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Leviticus 8 verses
- Leviticus 7:30 הֶֽ/חָזֶה֙ הֶ/חָזֶ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 7:31 הֶֽ/חָזֶ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c ms The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
- Leviticus 7:34 חֲזֵ֨ה n c ms cs For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'"
- Leviticus 8:29 הֶ֣/חָזֶ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:20 הֶ/חָז֑וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:
- Leviticus 9:21 הֶ/חָז֗וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
- Leviticus 10:14 חֲזֵ֨ה n c ms cs The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:15 וַ/חֲזֵ֣ה conj + n c ms cs The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded."
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 6:20 חֲזֵ֣ה n c ms cs and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Numbers 18:18 כַּ/חֲזֵ֧ה prep + n c ms cs The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
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.
At its core, חזה (châzeh) means “breast.” Its uses cluster heavily in Leviticus (67% of all occurrences). With 12 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Exodus 29:26. Sharing its root, it stands alongside חזה, הזה and חזא. 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 H2373 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
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 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 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: Breast 11×, Breasts 2×
- American Standard Version: Breast 6×, Wave-breast 3×, Breasts 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Breast 10×, Breasts 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Breast 6×, Breast of 4×, Breasts 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2373 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2373 across 13 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 H2373 across 13 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2373 across 13 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 1 sense 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.
- breast (of animals), breast of an animal sacrifice
Word origin
n.m. Lv 7:31 breast of animals (Aramaic ܚܰܕܝܳܐ, חַדְיָא)—abs. ח׳ Ex 29:26 + 4 times; cstr. חֲזֵה Ex 29:27 + 5 times; pl. חָזוֹת Lv 9:20, 21—breast, only P, and only of sacrificial animals; always as wave-offering; of ram of installation Ex 29:26, 27 Lv 8:29, of peace-offering Lv 7:30, 30; 9:20, 21, of Nazirite sacrif. Nu 6:20; perquisite of Aaron and his sons Lv 7:31, 34; 10:14, 15, cf. Nu 18:18.
— 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.
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.
חזי
- (b. h.) [to divide,] to discern, see (cmp. בּוּן). B. Bath. 91ᵃ חֲזִיתֶם נעמי וכ׳ have you seen what has become of Naomi &c.?
- to distribute kindled chips between logs of wood. Sabb. I, 11 (19ᵇ) ומְחַזִּין Mss. (ed. Ven. מחיזין; Y. ed. Krot. ומחזיזן, read ומַחֲזִיזִין, Hif. of חזז, or מְחַזְּזִין), v. אָחַז.—V. חָזִית.
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 11 distinct written forms H2373 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲזֵ֣ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 29:27 | 2 |
| חֲזֵ֨ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 7:34 | 2 |
| הֶ/חָז֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 9:20 | 1 |
| הֶ/חָז֗וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 9:21 | 1 |
| הֶ/חָזֶ֗ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 7:30 | 1 |
| הֶ֣/חָזֶ֔ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 8:29 | 1 |
| הֶֽ/חָזֶ֔ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 7:31 | 1 |
| הֶֽ/חָזֶ֗ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:26 | 1 |
| הֶֽ/חָזֶה֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 7:30 | 1 |
| וַ/חֲזֵ֣ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 10:15 | 1 |
| כַּ/חֲזֵ֧ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 18:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2373, 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 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
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- חזאל Chăzâʼêl H2371 Hazael
- 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 20 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
