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# חָסֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2634

**strong** — 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

strong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2634/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסֹן: adj. strong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2634/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. strong, of the Amorite Am 2:9 (ח׳ כָּאַלּוֹנִים, strong as the oaks); הֶחָסוֹן as subst. the strong one Is 1:31. \[חָסַן\] Is. 23:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 1:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.31/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה הֶחָסֹן֙ לִנְעֹ֔רֶת וּפֹעֲל֖וֹ לְנִיצ֑וֹץ וּבָעֲר֧וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם יַחְדָּ֖ו וְאֵ֥ין מְכַבֶּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.become the.strong \[person\] (into) tow and work his \[will become\].(into).a.spark and they.will.burn both of.them together and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] \[one.who\].extinguishes

*JPS 1917:* And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

[Amos 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.9/#tree)

וְאָ֨נֹכִ֜י הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּי אֶת־הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר כְּגֹ֤בַהּ אֲרָזִים֙ גָּבְה֔וֹ וְחָסֹ֥ן ה֖וּא כָּֽאַלּוֹנִ֑ים וָאַשְׁמִ֤יד פִּרְיוֹ֙ מִמַּ֔עַל וְשָׁרָשָׁ֖יו מִתָּֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* and I I.destroyed (et) the Amorite\[s\] from before them who \[was\].like.\[the\] height of.cedars height his and.\[is\] strong he like (the) oaks and I.destroyed fruit his (from) above and roots his (from) beneath

*JPS 1917:* Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2634.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2634/): 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).