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# חׇזְקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2394

**strength** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2394/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָזְקָה: n.f. strength, force, violence Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2394/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. strength, force, violence, always בְּחָזְקָה, with strength, force, etc.;— of oppression Ju 4:3 forcibly, violently; capture by force 1 S 2:16; Ez 34:4 of ruling בְּח׳ וּבְפָ֑רֶךְ with force and with rigour. rebuke severely, sharply Ju 8:1; cry mightily, insistently Jon 3:8.—לְחָזְקָה 2 K 12:13 v. חָזַק Qal Inf.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: force (5).

## In the verses

[Judges 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.3/#tree)

וַיִּצְעֲק֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֠י תְּשַׁ֨ע מֵא֤וֹת רֶֽכֶב־בַּרְזֶל֙ ל֔וֹ וְ֠הוּא לָחַ֞ץ אֶת־בְּנֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל בְּחָזְקָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.cried.out the.people of.Israel to Yahweh (dm) nine hundred(s) chariot\[s\] of.iron \[belonged\].to him and he he.oppressed (et) the.people of.Israel by force twenty year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

[Jonah 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.8/#tree)

וְיִתְכַּסּ֣וּ שַׂקִּ֗ים הָֽאָדָם֙ וְהַבְּהֵמָ֔ה וְיִקְרְא֥וּ אֶל־אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּחָזְקָ֑ה וְיָשֻׁ֗בוּ אִ֚ישׁ מִדַּרְכּ֣וֹ הָֽרָעָ֔ה וּמִן־הֶחָמָ֖ס אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּכַפֵּיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and let.them.cover.themselves sackcloth(s) the people and the livestock and let.them.call.out to God with force and let.them.turn.back everyone from way his (the) evil and from the violence which \[is\].in palms their

*JPS 1917:* but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2394.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2394/): 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).