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# עָצוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6099

**mighty** — used 31 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

mighty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6099/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצוּם: adj. mighty, numerous [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6099/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 31 adj. mighty, numerous;—ע׳ Gn 18:18 +, pl. עֲצוּמִים Is 8:7 +, עֲצֻמִים Mi 4:3 +; sf. עֲצוּמָין ψ 10:10;— mighty, especially of people, strong in numbers (often ‖ רַב, גָּדוֹל) Gn 18:18; Ex 1:9; Nu 14:12; 22:6 JE; Dt 4:38 + 6 times D, Mi 4:3, 7 Zc 8:22; Is 60:22 (opp. צָעִיר), of locusts Jo 1:6; 2:2, 5, cf. v 11; so of חַיִל Dn 11:25; עַם לֹא עָצוּם, i.e. feeble Pr 30:26 (of the שָׁפָן); less often of individ. מְלָכִים ע׳ ψ 135:10; of waters Is 8:7; ע׳ alone Pr 18:18 the mighty, Dn 8:24; ψ 10:10 his mighty ones (i.e. claws, of lion). numerous, countless (all ‖ רַב): Am 5:12 ψ 35:18; as subst. = many Is 53:12; Pr 7:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 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: mighty (20); numerous (4); mighty \[people\] (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 135:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.10/#tree)

שֶֽׁ֭הִכָּה גּוֹיִ֣ם רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝הָרַ֗ג מְלָכִ֥ים עֲצוּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* who he.defeated nations many and he.killed kings mighty

*JPS 1917:* Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings:

[Proverbs 18:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.18/#tree)

מִ֭דְיָנִים יַשְׁבִּ֣ית הַגּוֹרָ֑ל וּבֵ֖ין עֲצוּמִ֣ים יַפְרִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* contentions it.puts.an.end.to the lot and between mighty.\[people\] it.separates

*JPS 1917:* The lot causeth strife to cease, and parteth asunder the contentious.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6099.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6099/): 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).