To see
חֲזָהStrong’s H2372chazah (cha-zah)
Appears in 51 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chazah is the Hebrew word usually translated “saw”, “see” and “have seen”. It appears in 51 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.”
Meaning
- To see, behold(P'al)
How it's translated
- he saw 6
- i will see 3
- see 3
- they have seen 3
- he sees 2
- i see 2
- you have seen 2
- they see 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 10
- Job 9
- Psalms 9
- Ezekiel 9
- Proverbs 3
- Exodus 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- Exodus 24:11And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
- Numbers 24:4He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
- Numbers 24:16He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
- Job 8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
- Job 15:17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
All 51 verses, by book
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.