חֵזֶק
chêzeq · H2391 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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strength
Literally: (one's) strength; hence: a title for God as the one who grants strength to his people
ExamplesPsalm 18:1 “I love You, LORD, my strength.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- כֹּחַ kôach · H3581 · strength, power, ability
- Common Hebrew noun for strength or power, broadly synonymous with חֵזֶק but more frequently used and covering both physical and abstract strength.
- עֹז ʻôz · H5797 · strong, mighty, strength
- Hebrew noun for strength or might, often used in poetic contexts and frequently of God's power, semantically parallel to חֵזֶק.
- גְּבוּרָה gᵉbûwrâh · H1369 · greatness, ability, might
- Hebrew noun for strength or mighty power, often connoting valor or heroic strength, closely related in semantic field to חֵזֶק.
Contrasting words 1 word
- רָפֶה râpheh · H7504 · weak, discouraged
- Hebrew adjective meaning weak or slack, the lexical opposite of strong/strength terms.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἰσχύς ischýs · G2479 · capability, strength
- Greek noun for physical or abstract strength, the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew strength terms in LXX contexts.
- κράτος krátos · G2904 · power, might, mighty deed
- Greek noun for strength or might, often used to translate Hebrew strength vocabulary, emphasizing sovereign power.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Titles003001017
- The noun's one occurrence falls within a dense string of divine epithets — "my rock and my fortress and my savior... my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold" (Psalm 18:2) — so the code reflects its place among a cluster of titles applied to God rather than an independent naming sense of the word "strength" itself.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2391. chezeq [חֵ֫זֶק] noun [masculine] strength, only ׳י חִזְקִי Psa 18:2 (omitted by…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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