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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 attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - “So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:19 - And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - “and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:31

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 stronger than we.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said:

“Firm is your dwelling place,
And your nest is set in the rock;

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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, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

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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 which you go to possess, and has cast out 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 mightier than you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up 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 God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes 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 greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - “Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - that they 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 driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - “Then the survivors came down, the people against the nobles;
The LORD came down for me against the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked for water, she gave milk;
She brought out cream in a lordly bowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:14

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.”
Now for three days they could not explain the riddle.

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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 solved my riddle!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - Then the children of Dan went 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 - Then Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city—from Giloh—while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy grew strong, for the people with Absalom continually increased in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:31 - As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 - God is my strength and power,[fn]
And He makes my[fn] way perfect.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:48

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 - It is God who avenges me,
And subdues the peoples under me;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - “Although my house is not so with God,
Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant,
Ordered in all things and secure.
For this is all my salvation and all my desire;
Will He not make it increase?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him the officer over all the labor force of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were thirty-six thousand troops ready for war; for they had many wives and sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Now their brethren among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, listed by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 - The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five in all. They were heads of their fathers’ houses, and they were listed by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - And they were recorded by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 - All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers’ houses; there were seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers’ houses, choice men, mighty men of valor, chief leaders. And they were recorded by genealogies among the army fit for battle; their number was twenty-six thousand.

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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. They had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty in all. These were all sons of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their brethren, heads of their fathers’ houses—one thousand seven hundred and sixty. They were 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 - Some Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the region beyond the River; and tax, tribute, and custom were paid to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - And I said: “I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You[fn] and observe Your[fn] commandments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - Nevertheless in Your great mercy
You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:13 - And you say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the deep darkness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:29 - “Behold, God works all these things,
Twice, in fact, three times with a man,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:31 - “For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastening;
I will offend no more;

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