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# עָצֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6105

**be vast** — used 17 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

be vast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6105/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצֹם: vb. vast, mighty, numerous Qal Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6105/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** , עָצַם vb. be vast, mighty, numerous (NH Nithp. contend strenuously, and in deriv.; Ph. in עצמת mighty deeds, עצמם bones; Arabic عَظُمَ be great in bone, or anything, عَظُمٌ bones; Ethiopic ዐፅም id.; Aramaic עִטְמָא, ܥܰܛܡܳܐ thigh);—Qal Pf. 3 ms. וְעָצַם consec. Dn 8:24; 11:23; 2 ms. עָצַמְתָּ Gn 26:16; 3 pl. עָֽצְמוּ Is 31:1 +, עָצֵ֑מוּ ψ 38:20; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּעַצְמוּ Ex 1:7, 20; Inf. cstr. עָצְמַת Is 47:9; sf. עָצְמוֹ Dn 8:8;— be mighty, Gn 26:16 (J; c. מִן comp.), Dn 8:8, 24; 11:23. be numerous, ‖ רַבּוּ etc., Is 31:1, בְּעָצְמַת חֲבָרַיִךְ מְאֹד 47:9; Je 5:6; 30:14, 15; Ex 1:7 (P), v 20 (J), ψ 38:20; 69:5; c. מִן comp. Je 15:8 ψ 40:6, 13; alone 139:17. Hiph. make strong, Impf. 3 ms: sf. וַיַּעֲצִימֵהוּ ψ 105:24 + מִן comp.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 3 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: they are numerous (8); they became mighty (2); as (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.20/#tree)

וְֽ֭אֹיְבַי חַיִּ֣ים עָצֵ֑מוּ וְרַבּ֖וּ שֹׂנְאַ֣י שָֽׁקֶר׃

*Word for word:* and enemies my life they.are.numerous and they.are.many \[those who\].hate.me falsehood

*JPS 1917:* But mine enemies are strong in health; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

[Psalms 105:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.24/#tree)

וַיֶּ֣פֶר אֶת־עַמּ֣וֹ מְאֹ֑ד וַ֝יַּֽעֲצִמֵהוּ מִצָּרָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.fruitful (et) people his exceedingly and he made.it.strong more than its.foes

*JPS 1917:* And He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6105.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6105/): 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).