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# חָזֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2390

**powerful** — used 2 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

powerful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2390/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָזֵק: adj.verb. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2390/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. v. חָזַק Qal Pt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: strong (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 19:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.19/#tree)

וַיְהִי֙ ק֣וֹל הַשּׁוֹפָ֔ר הוֹלֵ֖ךְ וְחָזֵ֣ק מְאֹ֑ד מֹשֶׁ֣ה יְדַבֵּ֔ר וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים יַעֲנֶ֥נּוּ בְקֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.sound of the.ram's.horn going and strong very Moses he.spoke and (the) God he answered.him with a.voice

*JPS 1917:* And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

[2 Samuel 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.1/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֤י הַמִּלְחָמָה֙ אֲרֻכָּ֔ה בֵּ֚ין בֵּ֣ית שָׁא֔וּל וּבֵ֖ין בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֑ד וְדָוִד֙ הֹלֵ֣ךְ וְחָזֵ֔ק וּבֵ֥ית שָׁא֖וּל הֹלְכִ֥ים וְדַלִּֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was the war long between the.house of.Saul and between the.house of.David and David \[was\].going and strong and the.house of.Saul \[were\].going and weak

*JPS 1917:* Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2390.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2390/): 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).