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# חֲזָה

Biblical Aramaic

**see** — used 31 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

see [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲזָה: vb. see, behold Pe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. see, behold (v. BH);— Pf. 3 ms. ח׳ Dn 4:20; 7:1; 2 ms. חֲזַ֫יְתָ 2:43 +, -תָה 2:41(×2); 1 s. חֲזֵית v 26 +; 2 mpl. חֲזֵיתוּן 2:8; Pe. Inf. לְמֶחֱזֵא֑ Ezr 4:14; Pt. act. חָזֵה Dn 2:31 + 14 times; pl. חָזַ֫יִן 3:27; 5:23; pass. חֲזֵה 3:19;— see, have sense of sight Dn 5:23. see, behold: acc. pers. 3:25, c. ל v 27, acc. rei 5:5. see, witness dishonour of king (acc.) Ezr 4:14. usually behold in dream or vision (often pt. in periphrast. conj.), acc. pers., Dn 4:20, acc. rei 2:41(×2), 43; 4:17, abs. 2:34; 7:4, 7, 9, 11(×2), 21, + אֲלוּ 2:31; 4:7, 10, אֲרוּ 7:2, 6, 13; c. obj. cl. 2:8, 45; behold a dream, acc. חֵלֶם, 2:26; 4:2, 6, 15; 7:1. pass. = customary (seemly) Dn 3:19 (so 𝔗 Lv 5:10 al., v. Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: seeing (13); you saw (5); I saw (4).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.21/#tree)

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וְקַרְנָ֣א דִכֵּ֔ן עָבְדָ֥ה קְרָ֖ב עִם־קַדִּישִׁ֑ין וְיָכְלָ֖ה לְהֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was and the horn this \[was\].making war with \[the\].holy.\[ones\] and \[it.was\].prevailing to them

*JPS 1917:* I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

[Daniel 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/#tree)

חֵ֥לֶם חֲזֵ֖ית וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִי וְהַרְהֹרִין֙ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֔י וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* a.dream I.saw and it made.me.afraid and imaginings on bed my and the.visions of my.head they alarmed.me

*JPS 1917:* I saw a dream which made me afraid; and imaginings upon my bed and the visions of my head affrighted me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).