chazon · vision

What it means

chazon (חָזוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vision”.

What God makes a prophet see or understand; by extension, his message.

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 lets a prophet see.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• vision ×34
• visions ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×7
• Daniel×12
• Hosea×1
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×2

• 1 Samuel 3:1

  And the boy Samuel was ministering to YHWH before Eli. And the word of YHWH was rare in those days; there was no vision breaking through.

• 1 Chronicles 17:15

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

• 2 Chronicles 32:32

  The rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loyal love, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

• Psalms 89:19

  Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have set help upon a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

• Proverbs 29:18

  Where there is no vision, the people run wild, but whoever keeps instruction, happy is he.

• Isaiah 1:1

  The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

• Isaiah 29:7

  And like a dream, a vision of the night, will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Ariel, and all who wage war against her and her fortress, and those who distress her.

• Jeremiah 14:14

  And YHWH said to me: “Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in my name; I did not send them, nor command them, nor speak to them; a vision of falsehood, and divination, and a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart they are prophesying to you.

• Jeremiah 23:16

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are filling you with vapor; a vision of their own heart they speak, not from the mouth of YHWH.

• Lamentations 2:9

  Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations; there is no instruction; even her prophets do not find a vision from YHWH.

• Ezekiel 7:13

  For the seller will not return to what was sold, even though their life be still among the living; for the vision concerning all her multitude will not turn back, and no one by his iniquity will strengthen his life.

• Ezekiel 7:26

  Calamity upon calamity will come, and report upon report will be; and they will seek a vision from the prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

• Ezekiel 12:22

  “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have concerning the ground of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision perishes’?

• Ezekiel 12:23

  Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make this proverb cease, and they will not use it as a proverb anymore in Israel.’ But say to them, ‘The days have drawn near, and the word of every vision.

• Ezekiel 12:24

  For there will no longer be any empty vision or flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 12:27

  “Son of man, look, the house of Israel says, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days, and for distant times he prophesies.’

• 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.’

• Daniel 1:17

  And to these four youths, Elohim gave them learning and insight in all writing and wisdom; and Daniel understood all visions and dreams.

• Daniel 8:1

  In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me at the first.

• Daniel 8:2

  And I saw in the vision, and it happened, when I saw, that I was in Susa the fortress, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

• Daniel 8:13

  And I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, “Until when is the vision of the continual sacrifice and the transgression that makes desolate, to give over both the holy place and the army to be trampled?”

• Daniel 8:15

  And it happened, when I, Daniel, saw the vision, that I sought understanding; and look, standing before me was one with the appearance of a man.

• Daniel 8:17

  And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was terrified and fell on my face; and he said to me, “Understand, son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”

• Daniel 8:26

  And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been told is true; and you, keep secret the vision, for it is for many days.”

• Daniel 9:21

  while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

• Daniel 9:24

  Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and concerning your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in eternal righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

• Daniel 10:14

  And I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people at the end of the days, for the vision is yet for those days.”

• Daniel 11:14

  And in those times many will stand up against the king of the south; and the sons of the violent of your people will lift themselves up to fulfill the vision, but they will stumble.

• Hosea 12:10

  And I spoke to the prophets, and I multiplied vision, and by the hand of the prophets I gave parables.

• Obadiah 1:1

  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning Edom: A report we have heard from YHWH, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle!”

• Micah 3:6

  “Therefore it will be night for you, without vision, and it will be dark for you, without divination; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.

• Nahum 1:1

  The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

• Habakkuk 2:2

  And YHWH answered me and said: “Write the vision, and engrave it clearly on the tablets, so that the one who reads it may run.

• Habakkuk 2:3

  For the vision is yet for the appointed time; and it hastens toward the end, and it will not lie. If it delays, wait for it, for it will surely come; it will not be late.

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