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# חֲזִיז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2385

**bolt** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bolt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2385/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲזִיז: bolt, lightning-flash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2385/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thunder-bolt, lightning-flash (NH חֲזִיז; Aramaic חֲזִיזָא shining cloud)—only cstr. חֲזִיז and pl. חֲזִיזִים; וְדֶרֶךְ לַחֲזִיז קֹלוֹת Jb 28:26 and a way for thunder-bolts = 38:25; י׳ עֹשֶׂה חֲזִיזִים Zc 10:1 (‖ מְטַר־גֶּשֶׁם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: storm (2); thunder-clouds (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/#tree)

מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* who? does.he.divide for the flood a.channel and a.path for.\[the\] storm of.thunder.claps

*JPS 1917:* Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

[Job 28:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.26/#tree)

בַּעֲשֹׂת֣וֹלַמָּטָ֣ר חֹ֑ק וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* when made he for the rain a.decree and a.path for.\[the\] storm of.thunder.claps

*JPS 1917:* When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the storm of thunders;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2385/): 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).