To see
חֲזָהStrong’s H2370chazah (cha-zah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chazah is the Aramaic word usually translated “seeing”, “saw” and “see”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.”
Meaning
- To see, behold(P'al)
How it's translated
- seeing 17
- you saw 5
- i saw 4
- he saw 2
- to see 1
- you have seen 1
- proper 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 28
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:26In contextThe king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
- Daniel 2:31In contextThou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
- Daniel 2:34In contextThou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
- Daniel 2:41In contextAnd whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
- Daniel 2:43In contextAnd whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
- Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲזָה chazah · to see
1) to see, behold 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to see 1a2) to see, behold, witness 1a3) to behold (in a dream or vision) 1a4) customary, seemly (passive)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “see” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEE, noun.
- The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
- The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
- The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
All definitions and other forms of “see”
- To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.“I will now turn aside and see this great sight” Exodus 3:3“We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good” Judges 18:9
- To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to“See that ye fall not out by the way” Genesis 45:24
- To discover; to descry; to understand.
- To converse or have intercourse with.
- To visit; as, to call and see a friend.
- To attend; to remark or notice.
- To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
- In Scripture, to hear or attend to.“I turned to see the voice that spoke with me” Revelation 1:12
- To feel; to suffer; to experience.“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil” Psalms 90:15“If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death” John 8:51
- To know; to learn.“Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren” Genesis 37:14
- To perceive; to understand; to comprehend.
- To perceive; to understand experimentally.“I see another law in my members” Romans 7:23
- To beware.“See thou do it not. 9” Revelation 19:10
- To know by revelation.“The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” Isaiah 2:1
- To have faith in and reliance on.“Seeing him who is invisible” Hebrews 11:27
- To enjoy; to have fruition of.“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8
SEE, verb intransitive
- To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight.
- To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
- To eximane or inquere.
- To be attentive.
- To have full understanding.“But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth” John 9:41
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.