Aramaic words starting with chet
46 words in the Bible begin with chet (ח), listed most frequent first. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- ḥazahחֲזָהto see: to perceive something with the eyes or the mind, whether an ordinary sight or a vision.
- ḥelemחֵלֶםa dream: the images a person sees while asleep, presented throughout Daniel as a message from God that has to be interpreted
- ḥevaחֵיוָאa beast: any wild, non-human living creature; an animal.
- ḥadחַדone: the number one, and from it the word that marks a thing as single, whether counting it, picking it out of a group, or simply introducing it as "a" something
- ḥavahחֲוָהto declare: to state out loud for someone else what they have no way of finding out on their own, above all a dream, its meaning, or a hidden matter.
- ḥakkimחַכִּיםwise: having the knowledge and skill to explain what other people cannot, used in Daniel almost always as the standing name for the trained specialists on the Babylonian king's staff
- ḥezevחֱזוּa vision: the sight God gives a person at night, the imagery a dream is made of
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- the look of something: how big or imposing it seems to the eye
- ḥaggayחַגַּיHaggainot studied yet
- ḥasaphחֲסַףclay: cheap potter's earth, the breakable material of ordinary pottery set over against metal
- ḥokhmahחׇכְמָהwisdom: insight that belongs first to God and is given away by him, seen here as the power to explain what nobody else can explain
- ḥayחַיalive: living rather than dead. It describes God as the one who is genuinely alive, names people as "the living," and in the plural stands on its own for life itself.
- ḥayilחַיִלstrength in action: force brought to bear, whether against people, in a fighter's body, or in a voice raised to a shout
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- an army: the armed men a ruler commands, his strength counted out in bodies
- ḥavalחֲבַלto destroynot studied yet
- ḥayaחֲיָאto live: to be alive and go on living; and, of someone with the power of life and death, to let a person live.
- ḥamarחֲמַרwinenot studied yet
- ḥartomחַרְטֹםmagiciannot studied yet
- ḥalaphחֲלַףto passnot studied yet
- ḥanukkahחֲנֻכָּהdedicationnot studied yet
- ḥavalחֲבָלharmnot studied yet
- ḥalaqחֲלָקportionnot studied yet
- ḥazotחֲזוֹתvisibilitynot studied yet
- ḥemaחֱמָאragenot studied yet
- ḥintahחִנְטָהwheatnot studied yet
- ḥananחֲנַןbe graciousnot studied yet
- ḥasanחֲסַןto possessnot studied yet
- ḥesenחֵסֶןauthoritynot studied yet
- ḥatsaphחֲצַףbe hastynot studied yet
- ḥashaḥחֲשַׁחto neednot studied yet
- ḥavulahחֲבוּלָאcrimenot studied yet
- ḥavrahחַבְרָהassociatenot studied yet
- ḥedvahחֶדְוָהjoynot studied yet
- ḥadiחֲדִיbreastnot studied yet
- ḥadatחֲדַתnewnot studied yet
- ḥutחוּטto repairnot studied yet
- ḥivvarחִוָּרwhitenot studied yet
- ḥatta'ahחַטָּאָהsin offeringnot studied yet
- ḥatiחֲטָיsinnot studied yet
- ḥassirחַסִּרlackingnot studied yet
- ḥaravחֲרַבbe wastednot studied yet
- ḥarakhחֲרַךְto singenot studied yet
- ḥaratsחֲרַץloinnot studied yet
- ḥashavחֲשַׁבto accountnot studied yet
- ḥashokhחֲשׁוֹךְdarknessnot studied yet
- ḥashḥutחַשְׁחוּrequirementnot studied yet
- ḥashalחֲשַׁלto shatternot studied yet
- ḥatamחֲתַםto sealnot studied yet