חָזוֹןchâzôwn

vision

Pronunciation: khaw-zone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2377

Meanings

1. vision, as seen in the ecstatic state (Micah 3:6; Ezekiel 12:24; Daniel 1:17)

2. vision, in the night (Isaiah 29:7)

3. divine communication in a vision, oracle, prophecy (Ezekiel 7:26; 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Chronicles 17:15)

4. vision, as title of book of prophecy (Nahum 1:1; Isaiah 1:1; Obadiah 1:1)

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Where it appears

Appears 35 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 3:1 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli. Now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.
  • 1 Chronicles 17:15 So Nathan went back to David and told him everything the Lord had said in this vision.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:32 The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign and his acts of devotion are recorded in The Vision of the Prophet Isaiah Son of Amoz, which is included in The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
  • Psalms 89:19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, “I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.
  • Proverbs 29:18 When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.
  • Isaiah 1:1 These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).