Difference between revisions of "Hozai"

<p> <strong> [[Hozai]] </strong> is given as a prop. name in RV [Note: Revised Version.] of &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 33:19 , where AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] give ‘the seers.’ AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] has <strong> Hosai </strong> . If we retain the MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] , the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of RV [Note: Revised Version.] seems the only defensible one, but perhaps the original reading was ‘his seers.’ </p>

<p> ''''' hō´zā̇ ''''' - ''''' ı̄ ''''' ( חוזי , <i> ''''' ḥōzay ''''' </i> , or as it stands at the close of the verse in question, &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 33:19 , חוזי , <i> '''''ḥōzāy''''' </i> ; [[Septuagint]] τῶν ὁρώντων , <i> '''''tō̇n horō̇ntōn''''' </i> ; [[Vulgate]] (Jerome's <i> Latin Bible </i> , 390-405 ad) "Hozai"; the King James Version the seers; the King James Version margin "Hosai"; the American Standard Revised Version "Hozia," the American Revised Version margin "the seers." Septuagint not improbably reads החזים , <i> '''''ha''''' </i> - <i> '''''ḥōzı̄m''''' </i> , as in &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:18; an easy error, since there we find ודברי החזים , <i> '''''we''''' </i> - <i> '''''dhibherē ha''''' </i> - <i> '''''ḥōzı̄m''''' </i> , "the words of the seers," and here דּברי חוזי , <i> '''''dibherē ḥōzāy''''' </i> , "the words of Hozai." Kittel, following Budde, conjectures as the original reading חוזיו , <i> '''''ḥōzāyw''''' </i> , "his (Manasseh's) seers"): A historiographer of Manasseh, king of Judah. [[Thought]] by many of the Jews, incorrectly, to be the prophet Isaiah, who, as we learn from &nbsp;2 Chronicles 26:22 , was historiographer of a preceding king, Uzziah. This "History of Hozai" has not come down to us. The prayer of Manasseh, mentioned in &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:12 f, &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 33:18 f and included in this history, suggested the apocryphal book, "The [[Prayer]] of Manasses," written, probably, in the 1st century bc. See [[Apocrypha]] . </p>

<p> (Heb. Chozay', חוֹזִי '', Seer;'' Sept. οἱ ὁρῶντες, Vulg. ''Hozai,'' Auth. Vers. the seers," marg. "Hosai"), a prophet or seer, the historiographer of Manasseh, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 33, 19). B.C. p. 642. The [[Jews]] are of opinion that Hosai and Isaiah are the same person; the Sept. takes Hosai in a general sense for prophets and seers: the [[Syriac]] calls him ''Hanan,'' the Arabic ''Sapcha. — Calmet,'' s.v. Bertheau ''(Chronik.'' Einleit. p. 35) conjectures that חוזי is here a corrupt rendering for חוזים, as in &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:19; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33:18; but for this there is only the authority of a single Codex and the Sept. (Davidson, ''Revision Of Heb. Text,'' p. 221, b). (See [[Chronicles]]). </p>