חֶזְקָה
chezqâh · H2393 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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strength, power, might
State in which humans are strong in a political sense
Examples2 Chronicles 12:1 When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the Law of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was untrue to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Isaiah 8:11 For so the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
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firmness
State in which objects cannot be moved from a certain place
ExamplesIsaiah 8:11 For so the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 3
- יָדhand, power 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 7
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Strong002001001063
- The noun names strength or a strengthening of oneself, sharing the root sense of חָזַק (châzaq, H2388), as Rehoboam's officials "strengthened themselves" in their resolve (2 Chronicles 12:13).
- Non-Move002002001013
- The word can also describe a condition that presses down and persists, a strong hold that does not lift or relent, the same nuance חָזַק (châzaq, H2388) carries for a settled, unyielding famine.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2393. chezqah [חֶזְקָה] noun feminine strength, force (strictly Infinitive form from חזק…
[חֶזְקָה] noun feminine strength, force (strictly Infinitive form from חזק see Ges§ 45. 1 b) —
1 of urgency of ׳יs hand in prophetic inspiration הַיָד֑ בְּחֶזְקַת Isa 8:11 (compare חָזַק Eze 3:14).
2 of royal power כְּחֶזְקָתוֺ2Ch 12:1; 2Ch 26:16 (|| חָזַק 2Ch 26:15), Dan 11:2.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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