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# אַמְצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H556

**strength** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַמְצָה: n.f. strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. strength, fig. Zc 12:5, but sense difficult, cf. WRZech. p. 585; StaZAW 1881, 34 proposes אֶמְצְאָה לְיוֹשְׁבֵי (after 𝔊 𝔗) may I be sufficient for.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] strength (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.5/#tree)

וְאָֽמְר֛וּ אַלֻּפֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּלִבָּ֑ם אַמְצָ֥ה לִי֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם בַּיהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.say the.chiefs of.Judah in heart their \[are\].strength my the.inhabitants of.Jerusalem by Yahweh of.hosts God their

*JPS 1917:* And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart: 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through the LORD of hosts their God.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/556/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).