This word hath several significations in Scripture. In the first ages of the world the Lord was pleased to manifest himself to the children of God by vision; sometimes by open revelations, at other times by dreams in the night. (Genesis 15:1 etc; Genesis 46:2.) Beside these, the books of the prophets are called visions. (Isaiah 1:1) And even in the after-ages, when Jesus had finished his redemption work, and was returned to glory, the Apostle Paul speaks of visions. (2 Corinthians 12:1, etc.)