חָזוּתchâzûwth

vision, conspicuousness

Pronunciation: khaw-zooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2380

Meanings

1. vision, oracle of a prophet (Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 29:11; Isaiah 28:18)

2. conspicuousness in appearance (Daniel 8:5; Daniel 8:8; Daniel 8:21)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 21:2 I see a terrifying vision: I see the betrayer betraying, the destroyer destroying. Go ahead, you Elamites and Medes, attack and lay siege. I will make an end to all the groaning Babylon caused.
  • Isaiah 28:18 I will cancel the bargain you made to cheat death, and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave. When the terrible enemy sweeps through, you will be trampled into the ground.
  • Isaiah 29:11 All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.”
  • Daniel 8:5 While I was watching, suddenly a male goat appeared from the west, crossing the land so swiftly that he didn’t even touch the ground. This goat, which had one very large horn between its eyes,
  • Daniel 8:8 The goat became very powerful. But at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off. In the large horn’s place grew four prominent horns pointing in the four directions of the earth.

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).