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# חֹזֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2392

**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/1495/2392/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫זֶק: n.m. strength [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2392/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. strength;—ח׳ cstr. Ex 13:3 + 3 times; חָזְקֵנוּ Am 6:13;— of י׳, ח׳ יַד Ex 13:3, 14, 16 (all JE). national strength Am 6:13 Hg 2:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: strength (3); our own (1); the strength (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.13/#tree)

הַשְּׂמֵחִ֖ים לְלֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר לֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר הָאֹ֣מְרִ֔ים הֲל֣וֹא בְחָזְקֵ֔נוּ לָקַ֥חְנוּ לָ֖נוּ קַרְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* the.joyful \[people\] to Lo Debar \[who\] say ? not by our.own strength have.we.taken for ourselves Karnaim

*JPS 1917:* Ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say: 'Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?'

[Exodus 13:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.16/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה לְאוֹת֙ עַל־יָ֣דְכָ֔ה וּלְטוֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֣ין עֵינֶ֑יךָ כִּ֚י בְּחֹ֣זֶק יָ֔ד הוֹצִיאָ֥נוּ יְהוָ֖ה מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.become (into).a sign on hand your and (into) marks between eyes your (dm) by strength of.hand he brought.us.out Yahweh from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes; for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2392.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2392/): 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).