אֹמֶץ
ʼômets · H555 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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strength, power
State in which humans have physical, political, and/or military strength
ExamplesJob 17:9 “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And the one who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָסַףto add 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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Contrasting words 2 words
- רָפֶה râpheh · H7504 · weak, discouraged
- Standard lexical antonym for strength terminology; רפה denotes weakness/feebleness in contrast to strength/might of אמץ forms
- חַלָּשׁ challâsh · H2523 · weak
- Adjective denoting weakness, direct semantic opposite of strength/might terminology
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἰσχυρός ischyrós · G2478 · powerful, strong, vigorous
- Greek adjective denoting strength/power, standard translation equivalent for Hebrew strength terminology including forms of אמץ root in comparative contexts
- κραταιός krataiós · G2900 · powerful, mighty
- Greek adjective for strength/might, alternative translation equivalent for Hebrew strength terms in LXX usage
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- אֹמֶץ names strength itself, describing something or someone as stronger.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H555. omets אֹ֫מֶץ noun [masculine] strength, figurative אֹ֑מֶץ יֹסִיף טֳהָריָֿדַיִם Job…
אֹ֫מֶץ noun [masculine] strength, figurative אֹ֑מֶץ יֹסִיף טֳהָריָֿדַיִם Job 17:9 the clean of hands increaseth strength.
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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