מַחֲזֶה
vision
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where H4236 appears in the Construct state, across 2 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.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 24:4 מַחֲזֵ֤ה n c ms cs He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Numbers 24:16 מַחֲזֵ֤ה n c ms cs He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
Ezekiel 1 verse
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 מחזה (machăzeh). A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in Numbers. First canonically at Genesis 15:1, it enters the text early. It shares a root with חזה, הזה and חזא. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4236 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
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 4×
- American Standard Version: Vision 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vision 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vision of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4236 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4236 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4236 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4236 across 4 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.
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.
- vision (in the ecstatic state)
Word origin
n.[m.] vision—abs. מ׳ Gn 15:1; cstr. מַחֲזֵה Nu 24:4, 16 Ez 13:7;—vision, in the ecstatic state מַחֲזֵה שָׁוְא (‖ מִקְסַם כָּזָב) Ez 13:7 of the false prophets; מַחֲזֵה שַׁדַּי Nu 24:4, 16 (JE; poems of Balaam); הָיָה דְבַר י׳ אֶל־אַבְרָם בַּמַּחֲזֶה Gn 15:1 (R) the word of י׳ came unto Abram in a vision.
— 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 3 distinct written forms H4236 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲזֵ֤ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 24:4 | 2 |
| בַּֽ/מַּחֲזֶ֖ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 15:1 | 1 |
| מַֽחֲזֵה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 13:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4236, 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 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 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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