חָזָה châzâh — to gaze at
Translated in the KJV as behold, look, prophesy, provide, see.
a primitive root; to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have a vision of.
châzâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 21Imperfect (yiqtol) 18Imperative 4Wayyiqtol 3Infinitive construct 2Cohortative 1Participle (active) 1Jussive 1
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›