chizayon · vision

What it means

chizayon (חִזָּיוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vision”.

A vision: what God shows or communicates, sometimes at night or in dreams.

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. What God shows a prophet, sometimes at night.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• vision ×6
• visions ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×4
• Isaiah×2
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• 2 Samuel 7:17

  In accordance with all these words and in accordance with all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

• Job 4:13

  In disquieting thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

• Job 7:14

  then you scare me with dreams and with visions you terrify me,

• Job 20:8

  Like a dream he will fly away, and they will not find him; and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Job 33:15

  in a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbers on the bed,

• Isaiah 22:1

  The burden of the valley of Vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the rooftops,

• Isaiah 22:5

  For it is a day of panic and of trampling and of confusion from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the valley of Vision, a battering down of the wall and a cry to the mountain.

• Joel 2:28

  And it will happen afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

• Zechariah 13:4

  And it will happen on that day that the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not put on a mantle of hair in order to lie.