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Lexicon :: Strong's G2478 - ischyros

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ἰσχυρός
Transliteration
ischyros (Key)
Pronunciation
is-khoo-ros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
29x in 17 unique form(s) TR
27x in 15 unique form(s) LXX
112x in 29 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:397,378

Strong’s Definitions

ἰσχυρός ischyrós, is-khoo-ros'; from G2479; forcible (literally or figuratively):—boisterous, mighty(-ier), powerful, strong(-er, man), valiant.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G2478 in the following manner: mighty (10x), strong (9x), strong man (5x), boisterous (1x), powerful (1x), valiant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G2478 in the following manner: mighty (10x), strong (9x), strong man (5x), boisterous (1x), powerful (1x), valiant (1x).

  1. strong, mighty

    1. of living beings

      1. strong either in body or in mind

      2. of one who has strength of soul to sustain the attacks of Satan, strong and therefore exhibiting many excellences

    2. on inanimate things

      1. strong, violent, forcibly uttered, firm, sure

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰσχυρός ischyrós, is-khoo-ros'; from G2479; forcible (literally or figuratively):—boisterous, mighty(-ier), powerful, strong(-er, man), valiant.
STRONGS G2478:
ἰσχυρός, ἰσχυρά, ἰσχυρόν (ἰσχύω) (from Aeschylus down), the Sept. mostly for אֵל, גִּבּור, חָזָק, עָצוּם, and Chaldean תַּקִּיף; strong, mighty;
a. of living beings: strong either in body or in mind, Matthew 12:29; Mark 3:27; Luke 11:21; Revelation 5:2; Revelation 10:1; Revelation 18:21; ἐν πολέμῳ, mighty i. e. valiant, Hebrews 11:34, cf. Revelation 19:18; of one who has strength of soul to sustain the assaults of Satan, 1 John 2:14; universally strong, and therefore exhibiting many excellences, 1 Corinthians 4:10 (opposed to ἀσθενής); comparitive, Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; mighty, — of God, 1 Corinthians 1:25; Revelation 18:8 (Deuteronomy 10:17; 2 Macc. 1:24, etc.); of Christ raised to the right hand of God, 1 Corinthians 10:22; of those who wield great influence among men by their rank, authority, riches, etc., τά ἰσχυρά equivalent to τούς ἰσχυρούς (on the neuter cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 5), 1 Corinthians 1:27 (οἱ ἰσχυροί τῆς γῆς, 2 Kings 24:15); joined with πλούσιοι, Revelation 6:15 (Rec. οἱ δυνατοί).
b. of inanimate things: strong equivalent to violent, ἄνεμος, Matthew 14:30 (T WH omit ἰσχυρόν); forcibly uttered, φωνή, Revelation 18:2 (Rec. μεγάλη) (Exodus 19:19); κραυγή, Hebrews 5:7; βρονταί, Revelation 19:6; λιμός, great, Luke 15:14; ἐπιστολαί (stern (forcible)), 2 Corinthians 10:10; strong equivalent to firm, sure, παράκλησις, Hebrews 6:18; fitted to withstand a forcible assault, πόλις, well fortified, Revelation 18:10 (τεῖχος, 1 Macc. 1:33; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 7; πύργος, Judges 9:51). (Cf. δύναμις, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
19:19
Deuteronomy
2; 10:17
Judges
9:51
2 Kings
24:15
Matthew
3:11; 12:29; 14:30
Mark
1:7; 3:27
Luke
3:16; 11:21; 15:14
1 Corinthians
1:25; 1:27; 4:10; 10:22
2 Corinthians
10:10
Hebrews
5:7; 6:18; 11:34
1 John
2:14
Revelation
5:2; 6:15; 10:1; 18:2; 18:8; 18:10; 18:21; 19:6; 19:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2478 matches the Greek ἰσχυρός (ischyros),
which occurs 112 times in 112 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 14:5–Job 34:31)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and [fn]defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in [fn]Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - “So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they came to the [fn]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and [fn]sorrowful lamentation; and he [fn]observed seven days mourning for his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:19 - When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with [fn]thunder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - “See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against him with a heavy [fn]force and with a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said,
“Your dwelling place is enduring,
And your nest is set in the cliff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - “When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities [fn]fortified to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - ‘Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:17 - “For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - “Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the [fn]life, and you shall not eat the [fn]life with the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you may [fn]fear the LORD your God [fn]forever.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and [fn]priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down [fn]flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - that [fn]he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - “For the LORD has [fn]driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - “Then survivors came down to the nobles;
The people of the LORD came down to me as warriors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - “He asked for water and she gave him milk;
In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - So he said to them,
“Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something sweet.”
But they could not tell the riddle in three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
“What is sweeter than honey?
And what is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
You would not have found out my riddle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - So the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:31 - “As for God, His way is [fn]blameless;
The word of the LORD is tested;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - “For who is God, besides the LORD?
And who is a rock, besides our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 - “God is my strong fortress;
And He [fn]sets the [fn]blameless in [fn]His way.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 - The God who executes vengeance for me,
And brings down peoples under me,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - “Truly is not my house so with God?
For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Ordered in all things, and secured;
For all my salvation and all my desire,
Will He not indeed make it grow?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was [fn]industrious, he appointed him over all the [fn]forced labor of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:24 - These were the heads of their fathers’ households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ households.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 [fn]troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Their [fn]relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 - The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 enrolled by genealogy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 - All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were [fn]ready to go out with the army to war.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:40 - The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, 150 of them. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - From the Gadites there [fn]came over to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - that mighty kings have [fn]ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the provinces beyond the River, and that tribute, custom and toll were paid to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - I said, “I beseech You, O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - “Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them,
For You are a gracious and compassionate God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,
Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,
Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:13 - “You say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:29 - “Behold, God does all these [fn]oftentimes with men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:31 - “For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

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