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Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H2324

חֲוָא

chavakhav-aw'

to show

14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: chăvâʼ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2324is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2324

to show

The King James renders it: shew.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

chava is rendered "to show". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:4Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

Daniel 2:4נְחַוֵּֽא׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fourteen of the word's fourteen uses are in Daniel.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to declare5
  • we will declare2
  • declare to me1
  • he will declare1
  • he will declare it1
  • he will declare to me1
  • I will declare1
  • you will declare1
  • you will declare to me1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 14, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה2
  • לְהַחֲוָיָֽה׃2
  • אֲחַוֵּֽא׃ ס1
  • הַחֲוֹֽנִי׃1
  • יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה׃ פ1
  • יְחַוִּנַּ֖הּ1
  • יְחַוִּנַּ֔נִי1
  • לְהַחֲוָיָ֑ה1
  • נְהַחֲוֵֽה׃1
  • נְחַוֵּֽא׃1
  • תְּֽהַחֲוֹ֔ן1
  • תְּהַחֲוֻנַּֽנִי׃1

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)5AR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1AVhi1cp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1AVhi2mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AVhi2mp/Sp1bs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AVhv2mp/Sp1bs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1AVpi1cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1AVpi1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AVpi3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1AVpi3ms/Sp3fs

Daniel

fourteen uses
  • Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:4

    • נְחַוֵּֽא׃nechave'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will declare
  • But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:6

    • תְּֽהַחֲוֹ֔ןtehachavonverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will declare
    • הַחֲוֹֽנִי׃hachavoniverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: declare to me
  • They answered a second time, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will give the interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:7

    • נְהַחֲוֵֽה׃nehachavehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will declare
  • If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:9

    • תְּהַחֲוֻנַּֽנִי׃tehachavunaniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will declare to me
  • The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

    Daniel 2:10

    • לְהַחֲוָיָ֑הlehachavayahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to declare
  • What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”

    Daniel 2:11

    • יְחַוִּנַּ֖הּyechavvinahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he will declare it
  • So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.

    Daniel 2:16

    • לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥הlehachavayahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to declare
  • Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:24

    • אֲחַוֵּֽא׃ סʾachave'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will declare
  • Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.

    Daniel 2:27

    • לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥הlehachavayahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to declare
  • I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

    Daniel 4:2

    • לְהַחֲוָיָֽה׃lehachavayahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to declare
  • The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

    Daniel 5:7

    • יְחַוִּנַּ֔נִיyechavvinaniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he will declare to me
  • did this because Daniel, the one he named Belteshazzar, was found to have an extraordinary spirit, as well as knowledge, understanding, and the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Summon Daniel, therefore, and he will give you the interpretation.”

    Daniel 5:12

    • יְהַֽחֲוֵֽה׃ פyehachavehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will declare
  • Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.

    Daniel 5:15

    • לְהַחֲוָיָֽה׃lehachavayahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to declare

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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