חֲזָה
cha.zah (H2372)
to see
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# חֲזָה (chazah): The Hebrew Verb "to See" The Hebrew verb חֲזָה (chazah) means "to see" and appears 55 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates it was a standard term in ancient Hebrew for the act of visual perception. Like many verbs of seeing in biblical languages, chazah likely carried both literal and figurative dimensions—describing both the physical act of observing and the mental act of perceiving or understanding. The presence of this word across 55 biblical occurrences suggests it was commonly deployed in narrative, prophetic, and descriptive contexts where seeing was essential to the meaning. Given its role as a basic perceptual verb, chazah would have functioned as a foundational term for conveying how biblical figures acquired knowledge, witnessed events, or received divine revelation. The specific contexts of these 55 uses would clarify whether the word emphasized ordinary observation or carried particular weight in visionary or prophetic settings, though the lexicon data provided does not specify those contextual distinctions. Without access to the specific passages where chazah appears, we cannot detail its precise theological or narrative significance. However, its straightforward definition and substantial biblical presence mark it as a core vocabulary word—one through which Hebrew speakers and writers expressed the fundamental human experience of seeing and, by extension, knowing.
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Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’
They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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