choze · seer

What it means

choze (חֹזֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seer”.

One who sees in vision what God shows him; another name for the prophet. It is a different word from the one used in 1 Samuel 9:9, but this translation uses "seer" for both.

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. A prophet who sees what God shows him.
2. One who watches the stars.
3. A deal closed with someone that binds one to it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• seer ×12
• seers ×4
• see ×2
• agreement ×1
• seeing ×1
• who gaze ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×3
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• 2 Samuel 24:11

  When David got up in the morning, the word of YHWH came to Gad the prophet, David’s seer, saying,

• 2 Kings 17:13

  YHWH testified against Israel and against Judah through all his prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the instruction that I commanded your fathers and that I sent to you through my servants the prophets.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:9

  YHWH spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,

• 1 Chronicles 25:5

  All these were sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of Elohim, to lift up the horn; Elohim gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

• 1 Chronicles 29:29

  The acts of David the king, the first and the last, are written in the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer,

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  The rest of the deeds of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 12:15

  The deeds of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to the genealogical record? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.

• 2 Chronicles 19:2

  Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate YHWH? Because of this there is wrath on you from before YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 29:25

  He set the Levites in the house of YHWH with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the seer of the king and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was by the hand of YHWH through his prophets.

• 2 Chronicles 29:30

  Hezekiah the king and the officials ordered the Levites to praise YHWH with the words of David and of Asaph the seer; and they praised with great joy, and they bowed and bowed down.

• 2 Chronicles 33:18

  The rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, they are in the acts of the kings of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 35:15

  The singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their post, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the seer of the king; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. There was no need for them to turn away from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

• Isaiah 28:15

  Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

• Isaiah 29:10

  For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

• Isaiah 30:10

  who say to those who see, “Do not see,” and to the seers, “Do not see visions for us of what is right; speak to us smooth things, see visions of deceptions;

• Isaiah 47:13

  You are weary with the great number of your counsels; let them stand up now and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who make known at the new moons what will come upon you.

• Ezekiel 13:9

  And my hand will be against the prophets who see emptiness and who divine lies; in the inner council of my people they will not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be written, and into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 13:16

  the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and see for her a vision of peace, when there is no peace, declares Adonai YHWH.’

• Ezekiel 22:28

  And her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing emptiness and divining for them a lie, saying, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH,’ when YHWH has not spoken.

• Amos 7:12

  And Amaziah said to Amos, “Seer, go, flee to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and there prophesy.

• Micah 3:7

  And the seers will be ashamed, and the diviners will be embarrassed, and they will cover the mustache, all of them, for there is no answer from Elohim.”