cha.ziz denotes the lightning or thunderbolt described with rain and divine weather-making.

The term denotes the lightning phenomenon in weather scenes: Job links it with a prepared way alongside rain, while Zechariah places its plural form within the LORD's making of lightning and giving rain.

1. Lightning in rain and weather scenes · dominant

   In Job 28:26 and Job 38:25, the singular construct form occurs in the clause about making or cleaving “a way,” alongside rain; the APB renders the clause with “the thunderbolt.” In Zechariah 10:1, the plural absolute form occurs where the LORD makes lightning and gives rain; the APB renders it “lightning.”

   Job 28:26Job 38:25Zechariah 10:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the weather phenomenon as “the thunderbolt” in Job 28:26 and Job 38:25, and as “lightning” in Zechariah 10:1. These are translation renderings of whole clauses.