2385. chaziz

Lexicon

chaziz: Flash, lightning, thunderbolt

Original Word: חֲזִיז
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chaziyz
Pronunciation: khaw-zeez'
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-zeez')
KJV: bright cloud, lightning
NASB: storm clouds
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning to glare]

1. a flash of lightning

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bright cloud, lightning

From an unused root meaning to glare; a flash of lightning -- bright cloud, lightning.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
a thunderbolt, lightning flash
NASB Translation
storm clouds (1), thunderbolt* (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חֲזִיז] noun [masculine] thunder-bolt, lightning flash (Late Hebrew חֲזִיז; Aramaic חֲזִיזָא shining cloud) — only construct חֲזִיז and plural חֲזִיזִים; וְדֶרֶךְ לַחֲזִיז קֹלוֺת Job 28:26 and a way for thunder-bolts = Job 38:25; עשֶֹׁה חֲזִיזִים ׳י Zechariah 10:1 ("" מְטַרֿ גֶּשֶׁם).

Forms and Transliterations

חֲזִיזִ֑ים חזיזים לַחֲזִ֥יז לחזיז chaziZim ḥă·zî·zîm ḥăzîzîm la·ḥă·zîz lachaZiz laḥăzîz

Englishman's Concordance

Job 28:26
HEB: חֹ֑ק וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃
KJV: and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
INT: A limit course the lightning of the thunder

Job 38:25
HEB: תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃
KJV: or a way for the lightning of thunder;
INT: A channel A way the lightning of thunder

Zechariah 10:1
HEB: יְהוָ֖ה עֹשֶׂ֣ה חֲזִיזִ֑ים וּמְטַר־ גֶּ֙שֶׁם֙
NAS: who makes the storm clouds; And He will give
KJV: shall make bright clouds, and give
INT: the LORD makes the storm rain showers

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 2385
3 Occurrences

ḥă·zî·zîm — 1 Occ.
la·ḥă·zîz — 2 Occ.