chava · show, declare

What it means

chava (חֲוָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “show, declare”.

To show, to make known, to declare (Aramaic).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make something known, like a dream.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• declare ×13
• declares to me ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:4

  And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

• Daniel 2:6

  But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, gifts and a reward and great honor you will receive from before me. Therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”

• Daniel 2:7

  They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare its interpretation.”

• Daniel 2:9

  that if you do not make known to me the dream, there is one law for you; and a lying word and corrupt you have agreed to speak before me until the time changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can declare to me its interpretation.”

• Daniel 2:10

  The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is no man on the dry land who can declare the king’s matter, because no king, great and ruling, has asked a thing like this of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.

• Daniel 2:11

  And the thing that the king asks is difficult, and there is no other who can declare it before the king except gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

• Daniel 2:16

  And Daniel went in and asked of the king that he would give him time, and he would declare the interpretation to the king.

• Daniel 2:24

  Because of this Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said this to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and the interpretation to the king I will declare.”

• Daniel 2:27

  Daniel answered before the king and said, “The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or diviners are able to declare to the king.

• Daniel 4:2

  The signs and the wonders that Elah Illaya has done with me it has seemed good to me to declare.

• Daniel 5:7

  The king called out with strength to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who reads this writing and declares to me its interpretation will be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold will be on his neck, and as third in the kingdom he will rule.”

• Daniel 5:12

  because an extraordinary spirit and knowledge and insight for interpreting dreams and declaring riddles and loosening knots were found in him, in Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.”

• Daniel 5:15

  And now the wise men, the enchanters, were brought in before me that they might read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they were not able to declare the interpretation of the matter.

And 1 more times.