חׇזְקָה
chozqâh · H2394 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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force, cruelty, ruthlessness, severity, urgency
Process by which an event takes place with force
ExamplesJudges 4:3 The sons of Israel cried out to the LORD; for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years.
Judges 8:1 Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “What is this thing that you have done to us, not calling upon us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they quarreled with him vehemently.
1 Samuel 2:16 And if the man said to him, “They must burn the fat first, then take as much as you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you must give it to me now; and if not, I am taking it by force!”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 9
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 2 words
- חַיִל chayil · H2428 · substance, great
- Both lexemes genuinely denote strength, force, or might as overlapping core senses (חׇזְקָה (chozqâh, H2394): force, mightily; חַיִל (chayil, H2428): might, power, strength, forces).
- עֱזוּז ʻĕzûwz · H5807 · might, power, fury
- Both lexemes denote strength/might concepts and could plausibly substitute for each other in many contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Strong002001001063
- The noun names forceful strength, the power exerted by "a strong hand and an outstretched arm" that brought Israel out of Egypt (Deuteronomy 4:34, 5:15).
- Intense002001003011
- The word also marks an intensified manner of acting, its gloss "sharply" or "mightily" describing the forceful degree with which an action is carried out.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2394. chozqah חָזְקָה noun feminine strength, force, violence, always בְּחָזְקָה with…
חָזְקָה noun feminine strength, force, violence, always בְּחָזְקָה with strength, force, etc.; —
1 of oppression Jdg 4:3 forcibly, violently; capture by force 1Sa 2:16; Eze 34:4 of ruling ׳בְּח וּבְמָּ֑רֶךְ with force and with rigour.
2 rebuke severely, sharply Jdg 8:1; cry mightily, insistently Jon 3:8. — לֲחָזְקָה 2Ki 12:13 see חָזַק
Qal Infinitive
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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