Lightning
חֲזִיזStrong’s H2385chaziz (cha-ziz)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaziz is the Hebrew word usually translated “storm of” and “thunder-clouds”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.”
Meaning
- Thunderbolt, lightning flash, lightning, storm, cloud
How it's translated
- for storm of 2
- thunder-clouds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֲזִיז chaziz · lightning
thunderbolt, lightning flash, lightning, storm, cloud
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lightning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIGHTNING, noun
li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]
- A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder.
- [from lighten, to diminish weight.] Abatement; alleviation; mitigation.
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.