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חֲזָיָה

Hazaiah

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hazaiah’ fuller range ↓

H2382 Strong's Hebrew
Chăzâyâh Transliteration
/khaz-aw-yaw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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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.

“Hazaiah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name חזיה (Chăzâyâh). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Nehemiah 11:5. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Hazaiah
Modern gloss
Hazaiah
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H2382 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Nehemiah 11:5
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Nehemiah 11:5.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Hazaiah 1×
  • American Standard Version: Hazaiah 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Hazaiah 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hazaiah 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H2382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Hazaiah” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H2382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Hazaiah” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H2382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Hazaiah” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H2382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Hazaiah” 1×

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.

  1. Hazaiah = "God has seen"
  2. an exile and descendant of Shelah of the tribe of Judah who returned in the time of Nehemiah

Word origin

n.pr.m. (Yah hath seen) one of the chiefs of the בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה Ne 11:5.

— 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.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2382, 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

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

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Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hazaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(whom Jehovah sees), a man of Judah of the family of the Shilonites, or descendants of Shelah. (Nehemiah 11:5)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

seeing the Lord

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.

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