הָזָה
hâzâh · H1957 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to murmur in one's sleep
Meaning unsure; possibly: process by which someone is asleep or half-asleep and utters unintelligible sounds
ExamplesIsaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- נוּם nûwm · H5123 · to slumber, to sleep
- Both denote sleep or slumber, describing the same state with different Hebrew words.
- יָשֵׁן yâshên · H3462 · to sleep, to fall asleep, to put to sleep
- Both words describe the same basic range of meaning, being in a state of sleep.
- רָדַם râdam · H7290 · to lie in a deep sleep, to lie still
- Both denote states of sleep—הָזָה (hâzâh, H1957) "sleep," רָדַם (râdam, H7290) "to be fast asleep, be in a deep sleep"—overlapping directly in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Asleep002001001004
- הָזָה, in its one occurrence, describes sleeping or dreaming, tying the rare term to the state of slumber in a description of watchmen who love to sleep.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1957. hazah [הָזָה] verb dream, rave (Arabic talk deliriously, Syriac , in Lexicons,…
[הָזָה] verb dream, rave (Arabic talk deliriously, Syriac , in Lexicons, id., compare also Vrss; see especially BoHieroz. ii. 56; ed. Rosenm. vol. i. 782). — only
Qal Participle active plural הֹזִים Isa 56:10 ה ׳לִנְבֹּ֑חַ שֹׁכְּבִים יוּכְלוּ לֹאof dogs, metaphor of false prophets.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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