Hebrew word · H2335

חוֹזַי

chozai

Hozaite

As pointed in the Hebrew text, a personal name, 'Hozai', otherwise unattested. It is built on ḥōzeh, 'seer', from ḥāzâ, 'see (in vision)'.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 24, 2026

What it means

1) seer

1a) seer

1b) vision

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Range of meaning: As pointed in the Hebrew text, a personal name, 'Hozai', otherwise unattested. It is built on ḥōzeh, 'seer', from ḥāzâ, 'see (in vision)'.
Against the English: WEB/YLT keep 'Hozai'. KJV, BSB and most modern versions read 'the seers'.
Used elsewhere in the period: Chronicles often cites prophetic sources: 'the words of Samuel the seer… Nathan the prophet… Gad the seer' (1 Chr 29:29), 'the vision of Iddo the seer' (2 Chr 9:29), and the like. Verse 18 just mentioned 'the words of the seers (haḥōzîm) who spoke to him'. The Greek reads 'of the seers'.

2 Chronicles · 1

2 Chronicles 33:19 חוֹזָֽי׃ Hozai

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

Here: As pointed in the Hebrew text, a name, 'Hozai', otherwise unknown. It may instead be a form of the word for 'seers' (prophets), which is how the Greek and most modern versions take it.

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