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Strong's #2389 - חָזָק

Transliteration

châzâq

Phonetics

khaw-zawk'

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H2388)

Parts of Speech

Adjective

TWOT

636a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) strong, stout, mighty

1a) strong

1a1) severe, sharp, hot

1a2) firm, hard

1b) a strong one (substantive)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (56)

Exodus 7

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 10

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 4

Ezekiel 10

Daniel 1

Amos 1

NAS (54)

Exodus 4

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 10

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 3

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 5

Ezekiel 9

Daniel 1

Amos 1

HCS (56)

Exodus 7

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 9

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 4

Ezekiel 11

Daniel 1

Amos 1

BSB (56)

Exodus 7

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 10

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 4

Ezekiel 10

Daniel 1

Amos 1

ESV (48)

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 10

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 4

Ezekiel 9

Daniel 1

Amos 1

WEB (56)

Exodus 7

Numbers 3

Deuteronomy 10

Joshua 3

Judges 1

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 4

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 3

Jeremiah 4

Ezekiel 10

Daniel 1

Amos 1

KJV (56)

and 1

harder 1

hottest 1

loud 1

mighty 20

sore 3

strong 26

stronger 2

NAS (54)

Strong 1

fiercest 1

hard 2

harder 1

loud 1

might 1

mighty 20

powerful 1

severe 3

stalwart 1

strong 19

stronger 1

who 2

HCS (56)

* 1

My strong 2

a loud 1

a mighty 2

a strong 14

are strong 2

are stronger 1

as hard 3

as strong 1

fierce 1

fiercest 1

harder 1

hardhearted 1

is hardheaded 1

is mighty 1

is strong 2

mighty 4

of one stronger 1

of the powerful 1

one too strong 1

powerful 1

powerfully 1

severe 1

strength 1

strong 6

the strong 1

the wind to a strong 1

was severe 1

were stronger 1

BSB (56)

* 1

His mighty 1

With a strong 1

a mighty hand compels him 1

and Your mighty 1

and a mighty 2

and a strong 1

and hardhearted 1

and mighty 4

and strong 1

and the mighty 1

are strong 1

are stronger 1

as hard 2

as strong 1

because of My mighty 1

because of My strong 1

both the strong one 1

by a strong 1

fierce 1

harder 1

has a strong 1

is mighty 1

is strong 2

is stubborn 1

of the fiercest 1

of the powerful 1

powerful 1

severe 1

that had overpowered him 1

the aggressor 1

the mighty 1

the strong 1

they are strong 1

to a very strong 1

to reflect the heat 1

was severe 1

were too strong 1

with a mighty 8

with a strong 2

with a very loud 1

with might 1

ESV (48)

hard 5

harder 1

hardest 1

might 1

mighty 18

severe 2

strong 19

stronger 1

WEB (56)

* 4

As yet I am as strong 1

There was severe 1

With a strong 1

and in all the mighty 1

and by a mighty 1

and by a strong 1

and by your strong 1

and of your mighty 1

and strong 2

and the mighty 1

and the strong 2

and though they are strong 1

and with a mighty 1

and with a strong 3

and your strong 1

are obstinate 1

as a mighty 1

for by a strong 1

for they are stronger than we 1

for with a strong 1

from him who is too strong 1

hard 2

harder 1

has a mighty 1

his mighty 1

is strong 2

loud 1

of him who was stronger than he 1

of the hottest 1

of the mighty 1

severe 1

strong 1

surely with a mighty 1

that it is mighty 1

that they were too strong 1

the strong 1

was severe 1

which is strong 1

who was strong 1

with a mighty 6

you out of there by a mighty 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2152) q z h (ההזק HhZQ) AC: Seize CO: ? AB: Strength: A strong grabbing hold to refrain or support.

V) q z h (ההזק HhZQ) - Seize: To grab hold tightly. To refrain or support by grabbing hold. KJV (290): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Piel) strong, repair, hold, strengthen, harden, prevail, encourage, take, courage, caught, stronger - Strongs: H2388 (חָזַק)

N^m) q z h (ההזק HhZQ) - Strong: The strength of something that refrains or supports. KJV (60): strong, mighty, sore, hard, hot, impudent, loud, stiffhearted, louder, stronger, strength - Strongs: H2389 (חָזָק), H2390 (חָזֵק), H2391 (חֵזֶק)

N^f1) e q z h (ההזקה HhZQH) - Strength: KJV (10): strong, strength, strengthen, force, mighty, repair, sharply - Strongs: H2393 (חֶזְקָה), H2394 (חָזְקָה)

g^m) q z f h (ההוזק HhWZQ) - Strength: KJV (5): strength - Strongs: H2392 (חֹזֶק)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

חָזָק adjective strong, stout, mighty; — ׳ח Exodus 10:19 18t.; feminine חֲזָקָה Exodus 3:19 31t. + Ezekiel 3:14 (Co for ᵑ0 verb 3 feminine singular); plural חֲזָקִים Judges 18:25 2t.; construct חִזְקֵי Ezekiel 2:4 (strike out Co. see below) Ezekiel 3:7; —

1 strong:

a. of men, rarely predicate Numbers 13:18 (opposed to רָפֶה), Numbers 13:31 (comparative with מִן), Joshua 14:11; Joshua 17:18 (all J E), Judges 18:26 (comparative with מִן); also of גֹּאֲלָם Jeremiah 50:34; Proverbs 23:11; of hand of ׳י Joshua 4:24 (D), so Ezekiel 3:14 ᵐ5 Co (see above and חָזַק Qal 3); compare of Tyre הָֽיְתָה חֲזָקָה בַּיָּם Ezekiel 26:17 (strike out B Co).

b. usually attributive; of ram of Pharaoh Ezekiel 30:22 (opposed to נִשְׁבָּ֑רֶת); especially of hand of ׳י in delivering Israel from Egypt, Exodus 3:19 (gloss ? see Di), Exodus 6:1 (twice in verse); Exodus 13:9 (all J), Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 9:26; Daniel 9:15; in wonders done by agency of Moses Deuteronomy 34:12; also בְּכֹחַ גָּדוֺל וּבְיָד חֲזָקָה Exodus 31:11(JE), compare Nehemiah 1:10, but oftener ביד חזקה וּבִזְרוֺעַ נְטוּיָה Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 26:6; Jeremiah 32:21; Psalm 136:12; of control of enemies and deliverance from exile Ezekiel 20:33,34; more Generally Deuteronomy 3:24 ("" גָּדְלְךָ), 1 Kings 8:42 2 Chronicles 6:32; of ׳י s opposition to Zedekiah Jeremiah 21:5; once of Edom, opposed to Israel בעם כבד וביד חזקה Numbers 20:20 (JE).

c. of sword of׳י Isaiah 27:1 ("" הַקָּשָׁה וְהַגְּדוֺלָה), of wind Exodus 10:19 (J), 1 Kings 19:11; sound of trumpet (= loud) Exodus 19:16 (E).

d severe, sharp, hot, of war 1 Samuel 14:52 (predicate), battle 2 Samuel 11:15, sickness 1 Kings 17:17 (predicate), famine 1 Kings 18:2.

e. firm, hard, of face, פנים Ezekiel 3:8, forehead, מֵצַח Ezekiel 3:8; adamant, simile of forehead Ezekiel 3:9 (comparative, with מִן); of sky Job 37:18 (predicate) in plural construct לֵב׳ח Ezekiel 2:4 hard of heart ("" קְשֵׁי פָנִים) but omitted by B Co, מֵֿצַח׳ח Ezekiel 3:7 hard (= impudent) of forehead ("" קְשֵׁילֵֿב).

2 as substantive, a strong one, of ׳י (בְּחָזָק, as, in the character of, a strong one) Isaiah 40:10; of ׳י s agent Isaiah 28:2 ("" אַמִּץ); see also וְחָזָק לאֹ יְאַמֵּץ כֹחוֺ Amos 2:14; with מִן compare= one too strong for Jeremiah 31:11; Psalm 35:10. In Ezekiel 34:16 ᵑ0 uses ׳הח in bad sense ("" הִשְּׁמֵנָה), ᵐ5 Co, with different text, in good sense (see VB).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חָזָק m. verbal adj.

(1) firm, in a bad sense hardened. Ezekiel 3:9, לֵב, חִזְקֵי־מֵצַח “hardened of forehead or heart,” i.e. obstinate. Ezekiel 2:4, 3:7 comp. verse Ezekiel 2:8.

(2) strong, mighty. Isaiah 40:10, בְּחָזָק יָבוֹא “he will come as a mighty one,” see בְּ No. 17.

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List of Word Forms

בְּחָזָ֣ק בחזק הֶחָזָ֥ק הַֽחֲזָקָ֔ה הַחֲזָקָ֑ה הַחֲזָקָ֔ה הַחֲזָקָ֖ה הַחֲזָקָ֛ה הַחֲזָקָֽה׃ הַחֲזָקָה֙ החזק החזקה החזקה׃ וְהַֽחֲזָקָ֗ה וְחִזְקֵי־ וְחָזָ֖ק וְחָזָ֞ק והחזקה וחזק וחזקי־ חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים חֲ֭זָקָה חֲזָקִ֖ים חֲזָקִ֥ים חֲזָקָ֑ה חֲזָקָ֔ה חֲזָקָ֖ה חֲזָקָ֖ה֙ חֲזָקָ֜ה חֲזָקָ֣ה חֲזָקָ֤ה חֲזָקָֽה׃ חֲזָקָה֙ חִזְקֵי־ חָזָ֑ק חָזָ֖ק חָזָ֗ק חָזָ֣ק חָזָ֤ק חָזָ֥ק חזק חזקה חזקה׃ חזקי־ חזקים מֵחָזָ֣ק מחזק bə·ḥā·zāq bechaZak bəḥāzāq chaZak chazaKah chazaKim chizkei ha·ḥă·zā·qāh ḥă·zā·qāh ḥă·zā·qîm ḥā·zāq hachazaKah haḥăzāqāh ḥāzāq ḥăzāqāh ḥăzāqîm he·ḥā·zāq hechaZak heḥāzāq ḥiz·qê- ḥizqê- mê·ḥā·zāq mechaZak mêḥāzāq vechaZak vechizkei vehachazaKah wə·ha·ḥă·zā·qāh wə·ḥā·zāq wə·ḥiz·qê- wəhaḥăzāqāh wəḥāzāq wəḥizqê-