חָזוֹן
vision
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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.
25 distinct verses where H2377 appears in the Absolute state, across 10 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 7:13 חָז֤וֹן n c ms For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
- Ezekiel 7:26 חָזוֹן֙ n c ms Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
- Ezekiel 12:22 חָזֽוֹן n c ms Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
- Ezekiel 12:23 חָזֽוֹן n c ms Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
- Ezekiel 12:27 הֶ/חָז֛וֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
Daniel 11 verses
- Daniel 1:17 חָז֖וֹן n c ms Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
- Daniel 8:1 חָז֞וֹן n c ms In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
- Daniel 8:2 בֶּ/חָזוֹן֒ בֶּֽ/חָז֔וֹן prep det + n c ms prep det + n c ms I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
- Daniel 8:13 הֶ/חָז֤וֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
- Daniel 8:15 הֶ/חָז֑וֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
- Daniel 8:17 הֶ/חָזֽוֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
- Daniel 8:26 הֶֽ/חָז֔וֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come].
- Daniel 9:21 בֶ/חָז֤וֹן prep det + n c ms yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
- Daniel 9:24 חָז֣וֹן n c ms Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Daniel 10:14 חָז֖וֹן n c ms Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for [many] days:
- Daniel 11:14 חָז֖וֹן n c ms In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Hosea 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Habakkuk 2 verses
- Habakkuk 2:2 חָז֔וֹן n c ms Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.
- Habakkuk 2:3 חָזוֹן֙ n c ms For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
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.
“vision” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חזון (châzôwn). Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It turns up in 34 verses across 15 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Daniel, which alone accounts for 32% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Samuel 3:1. See the sense tree, 34-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2377 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 →
- 34
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 34 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,023
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,023 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 34 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 34 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 18 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 47%
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: Vision 25×, Every vision 2×, Visions 2×
- American Standard Version: Vision 24×, Every vision 2×, Visions 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vision 27×, Visions 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vision 21×, Vision of 7×, Visions 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2377 across 35 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 H2377 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H2377 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H2377 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. vision, as seen in the ecstatic state ‖ קסם Mi 3:6; ‖ מקסם Ez 12:24; ‖ חלמות Dn 1:17; ‖ נביא Dn 9:24; חזה ח׳ Ez 12:27; 13:16; ראה ח׳ Dn 8:15; ראה בח׳ Dn 8:2, 2; 9:21; דבּר בח׳ ψ 89:20; חזון נראה אל Dn 8:1 vision appeared unto; מצא ח׳ מיהוה La 2:9 find a vision from Yahweh; also Ez 12:22, 23 Dn 8:13, 17, 26; 10:14; 11:14. e.g. Micah 3:6
- 2. vision, in the night חֲזוֹן לַיְלָה Is 29:7. e.g. Isaiah 29:7
- 3. divine communication in a vision, oracle, prophecy בקשׁ ח׳ מנביא seek a vision (prophecy) from prophet Ez 7:26; ‖ דבר(ים) 1 S 3:1 1 Ch 17:15; חֲזוֹן לִבָּם יְדַבֵּ֑רוּ Je 23:16 a prophecy of their own hearts (minds) they speak; חֲזוֹן שֶׁקֶר וְקֶסֶם אֱלִיל וְתַרְמִית לִבָּם הֵמָּה מִתְנַבְּאִים Je 14:14 false vision and (v. אֱלִיל) worthless divination & deceit of their own hearts they are prophesying; כתב ח׳ write the vision Hb 2:2; also Ho 12:11 Hb 2:3 Pr 29:18 Ez 7:13 (del. Co). e.g. Ezekiel 7:26
- 4. vision, as title of book of prophecy, ספר חזון נחוּם Na 1:1; ח׳ ישׁעיהו Is 1:1; ח׳ עבדיה Ob 1; of other writings of prophets 2 Ch 32:32. e.g. Nahum 1:1
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Dn 8:1 vision (on format. cf. LgBN 204)—abs. ח׳ Ho 12:11 + 25 times; cstr. חֲזוֹן Is 1:1 + 8 times.
— 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.
חָזוֹן
- vision. Lev. R. s. 1 בדבור ובח׳ in word and in vision.
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 27 distinct written forms H2377 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2377, 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
- 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.
- 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 19 — 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 33 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 34 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- 1 Samuel 3:1
- 1 Chronicles 17:15
- 2 Chronicles 32:32
- Proverbs 29:18
- Isaiah 1:1
- Jeremiah 14:14
- Lamentations 2:9
- Ezekiel 7:13
- Daniel 1:17
- Hosea 12:10
- Obadiah 1:1
- Micah 3:6
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.
