חֵזֵו
chêzêv · khay'-zev
a sight
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) from H2370 (חֲזָא);
a sight
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: look, vision.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to cut, to sustain › to fasten and establish
To separate and protect that works to cut, to sustain that works to fasten and establish.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֵזֵו above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the visions3 · 25%
- visions2 · 17%
- vision1 · 8%
- me the visions1 · 8%
- thus were the visions1 · 8%
- in the visions1 · 8%
- and visions1 · 8%
- in my vision1 · 8%
- whose look1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
- Daniel12
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.