Vision
חֱזוּStrong’s H2376chezev (che-zev)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chezev is the Aramaic word usually translated “visions of”, “vision the” and “vision my”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.”
Meaning
- Vision, appearancevision · appearance
How it's translated
- and visions of 5
- in visions of 3
- in vision the 1
- visions of 1
- in vision my 1
- and appearance its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 12
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:28In contextBut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
- Daniel 4:5In contextI saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
- Daniel 4:9In contextO Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 4:10In contextThus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
- Daniel 4:13In contextI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
- Daniel 7:1In contextIn the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Aramaic dictionary
חֱזוּ chezev · vision
1) vision, appearance 1a) vision 1b) appearance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vision” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VI'SION, noun
s as z. [Latin visio, from video, visus.]
- The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
- The faculty of seeing; sight. vision is far more perfect and acute in some animals than in man.
- Something imagined to be seen, though not real; a phantom; a specter.
- In Scripture, a revelation from God; an appearance or exhibition of something supernaturally presented to the minds of the prophets, by which they were informed of future events.
All definitions
- Something imaginary; the production of fancy.
- Any thing which is the object of sight.
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.