אֶזְרוֹעַ
ʼezrôwaʻ · H248 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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arm, forearm
Each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand; associated with action and strength
ExamplesJob 31:22 May my shoulder fall from its socket, And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
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outstretched arm, great power
Literally: outstretched arm; hence: action by which deities show their great power
ExamplesJeremiah 32:21 ‘You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
How it’s used In 4 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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָטָהto stretch out, to incline 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- βραχίων brachíōn · G1023 · power, great power, exalted power
- Greek βραχίων is the standard New Testament translation equivalent for Hebrew אֶזְרוֹעַ, both denoting the physical arm and extending figuratively to strength or power (especially in descriptions of divine might).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- אֶזְרוֹעַ names the arm, used figuratively of strength, as the LORD's outstretched arm bringing Israel out of Egypt.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H248. ezroa אֶזְרוֺעַ noun feminine arm (= foregoing with א prosthet.) — arm of man…
אֶזְרוֺעַ noun feminine arm (= foregoing with א prosthet.) — arm of man תִשֵָּׁבר׃ מִקָּנָה וְאֶזְרֹעִי תִמּ֑וֺל מִשִּׁכְמָה כְּתֵפִי Job 31:22; of י נְטוּיָה וּבְאֶזְרוֺעַ חֲזָקָה ׳וּבְיָד Jer 32:21, compare זְרוֺעַ 1c.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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