chaza · see

What it means

chaza (חֲזָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “see”.

To see (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "chaza".

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 look and notice something, also in dreams and visions.
2. What was customary or proper to do.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• I was looking ×11
• saw ×6
• you saw ×5
• see ×3
• were looking ×2
• it was customary ×1
• was seeing ×1
• were seeing ×1
• you have seen ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Daniel×30

• Ezra 4:14

  Now, because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the dishonor of the king, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

• Daniel 2:8

  The king answered and said, “I know for certain that you are buying time, because you have seen that the word from me is firm:

• Daniel 2:26

  The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I saw and its interpretation?”

• Daniel 2:31

  You, O king, were looking, and look, a great image was there, that image was large and its brightness extraordinary; it stood before you, and its appearance was terrifying.

• Daniel 2:34

  You were looking until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

• Daniel 2:41

  And as you saw the feet and the toes, partly potter’s clay and partly iron, the kingdom will be divided; and some of the firmness of iron will be in it, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with muddy clay.

• Daniel 2:43

  And as you saw the iron mixed with muddy clay, they will mix themselves with the offspring of men, but they will not hold together, this one with that one, just as iron does not mix with clay.

• Daniel 2:45

  Inasmuch as you saw that from the mountain a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, a great Elah has made known to the king what will be after this. And the dream is certain, and its interpretation trustworthy.”

• Daniel 3:19

  Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He answered and said to heat the furnace seven times more than it was customary to heat it.

• Daniel 3:25

  He answered and said, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no harm in them; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

• Daniel 3:27

  And the satraps, the prefects, and the governors and the advisers of the king were gathered and were seeing these men, that the fire had not had power over their bodies, and the hair of their head was not singed, and their cloaks had not changed, and the smell of fire had not passed on them.

• Daniel 4:5

  I saw a dream, and it made me afraid; and the imaginings on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

• Daniel 4:9

  “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery is too hard for you, tell the visions of my dream that I saw and its interpretation.

• Daniel 4:10

  And these were the visions of my head on my bed: I was looking, and look, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

• Daniel 4:13

  I was looking in the visions of my head on my bed, and look, a watcher, and a holy one, was coming down from the heavens.

• Daniel 4:18

  This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, Belteshazzar, tell the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

• Daniel 4:20

  The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong, and whose height reached to the heavens, and its visibility to all the earth,

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 5:5

  At that very moment there came out the fingers of a man’s hand and were writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king; and the king was seeing the palm of the hand that was writing.

• Daniel 5:23

  But against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted yourself up; and the vessels of his house they brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and the gods of silver and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone, which do not see or hear or know, you have praised; but the Elah in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

• Daniel 7:1

  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed; then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

• Daniel 7:2

  Daniel answered and said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and look, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the great sea.

• Daniel 7:4

  The first was like a lion and had wings of an eagle. I was looking until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it.

• Daniel 7:6

  After this I was looking, and look, another, like a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

• Daniel 7:7

  After this I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great teeth of iron; it devoured and crushed, and the rest it trampled with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

• Daniel 7:9

  I was looking until thrones were set, and an Ancient of Days sat down; his clothing was white like snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.

• Daniel 7:11

  I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.

• Daniel 7:13

  I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of the heavens one like a son of man was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.

• Daniel 7:21

  I was looking, and that horn was making war with the saints and prevailing over them,

And 2 more times.