חֲזִיז

chaziz · thunderbolt, lightning flash

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2385 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

chaziz (חֲזִיז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thunderbolt, lightning flash”.

A flash of lightning, the bolt of a storm.

How to say it

cha·ziz

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. The flash of a storm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • Job 28:26

    when he made a statute for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders;

  • Job 38:25

    Who has cut a channel for the flood, and a way for the lightning of the thunders,

  • Zechariah 10:1

    Ask of YHWH rain in the time of the late rain; YHWH makes the lightning flashes, and rain in downpours he will give them, to each grass in the field.