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# עׇצְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6109

**might** — 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

might [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6109/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצְמָה: n.f. might [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6109/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. might;—Is 40:29 (‖ כֹּחַ) 47:9; Na 3:9.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.29/#tree)

נֹתֵ֥ן לַיָּעֵ֖ף כֹּ֑חַ וּלְאֵ֥ין אוֹנִ֖ים עָצְמָ֥ה יַרְבֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].giving to the.weary \[person\] strength and to not strength(s) power he.increases

*JPS 1917:* He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.

[Isaiah 47:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.9/#tree)

וְתָבֹאנָה֩ לָּ֨ךְ שְׁתֵּי־אֵ֥לֶּה רֶ֛גַע בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד שְׁכ֣וֹל וְאַלְמֹ֑ן כְּתֻמָּם֙ בָּ֣אוּ עָלַ֔יִךְ בְּרֹ֣ב כְּשָׁפַ֔יִךְ בְּעָצְמַ֥ת חֲבָרַ֖יִךְ מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come to you both of.these.\[things\] a.moment in a.day one childlessness and widowhood according to their.completeness they.will.come on you in the.abundance your.sorceries your in the.power your.spells your very.many

*JPS 1917:* But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6109.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6109/): 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).