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title: חֲזוֹת — sight · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: חֲזוֹת (lemma:חֲזוֹת), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: sight. BDB 1906: n.f. sight, visibility. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲזוֹת

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«חֲזוֹת» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **sight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:חֲזוֹת · **BDB:** חֲזוֹת

### Glosses

the.sight (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5d5_5b9_5ea/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. sight, visibility [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5d5_5b9_5ea/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** K§ 55, 6 b) 2; read perhaps -וּת K§ 61, 4 b). Anm.\] n.f. sight, visibility (v. SchulthZAW xxii (1902), 165 f.);—sf. חֲזוֹתֵהּ Dn 4:8, 17.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲזוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5d6_5d5_5b9_5ea/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/)

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רְבָ֥ה אִֽילָנָ֖א וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְס֥וֹף כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.grew.great the tree and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to the.end of.all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

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[Daniel 4:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.17/)

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אִֽילָנָא֙ דִּ֣י חֲזַ֔יְתָ דִּ֥י רְבָ֖ה וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְכָל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the tree which you.saw which it.grew.great and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

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