חָזוּת
vision
‘vision’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 2 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2380 appears — 5 distinct verses across 2 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.
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 21:2 חָז֥וּת n c fs A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.
- Isaiah 28:18 וְ/חָזוּתְ/כֶ֥ם conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
- Isaiah 29:11 חָז֣וּת n c fs cs All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed:
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 8:5 חָז֖וּת n c fs As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
- Daniel 8:8 חָז֤וּת n c fs The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable [horns] toward the four winds of the sky.
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.
חזות — transliterated châzûwth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “vision.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (60% of all occurrences). It first appears in Isaiah 21:2. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. 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 H2380 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
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 2×
- American Standard Version: Agreement 1×, All vision 1×, Had a notable 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prominent 2×, Vision 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: A 1×, Agreement 1×, Conspicuous 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2380 across 5 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2380 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2380 across 5 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 H2380 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 2 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, oracle of a prophet חָזוּת קָשָׁה הֻגַּד־לִי Is 21:2 a hard vision is declared to me; וַתְּהִי לָכֶם חָזוּת הַכֹּל כְּדִבְרֵי הַסֵּפֶר הֶחָתוּם Is 29:11 the vision (prophecy) of the whole is become to you as the words of a sealed writing; חָזוּתְכֶם אֶת־שְׁאוֹל לֹא תָקוּם Is 28:18 your agreement with Sheol will not stand, so Thes MV De Che Di al. after Vrss, but Ew§ 156 e renders oracle, and Siegf. Hellseherei, v. חֹזֶה 2. e.g. Isaiah 21:2
- 2. conspicuousness in appearance: קֶרֶן הָזוּת a conspicuous horn Dn 8:5 = the great horn v 8, 21; so חָזוּת אַרְבַּע Dn 8:8, but אֲחֵרוֹת others, as 𝔊 Gr Bev. e.g. Daniel 8:5
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.f. vision, conspicuousness (on format. cf. LgBN 202)—abs. ח׳ Is 21:2 Dn 8:5, 8; cstr. חָזוּת Is 29:11; sf. חָזוּתְכֶם Is 28:18;—
— 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.
חָזוּת
- (חָזָה) polish, lustre, beauty. Yoma 70ᵃ כדי להראות חָזוּתוֹ וכ׳ to show the people the beauty of it (his copy of the Law); Tosef. ib. IV (III), 18 חֲזִיָּיתָן.—B. Mets. 21ᵇ חזותו מוכיח עליו (masc.) the looks of the olive proves the owner; [Ar. Var. זֵיתוֹ].
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 5 distinct written forms H2380 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/חָזוּתְ/כֶ֥ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:18 | 1 |
| חָז֖וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:5 | 1 |
| חָז֣וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 29:11 | 1 |
| חָז֤וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:8 | 1 |
| חָז֥וּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 21:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2380, 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
- 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 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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
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.
