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Lexicon :: Strong's G2479 - ischys

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ἰσχύς
Transliteration
ischys (Key)
Pronunciation
is-khoos'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of is (force, cf eschon, a form of ἔχω (G2192))
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:397,378

Strong’s Definitions

ἰσχύς ischýs, is-khoos'; from a derivative of ἰς is (force; compare ἔσχον éschon, a form of G2192); forcefulness (literally or figuratively):—ability, might(-ily), power, strength.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G2479 in the following manner: strength (4x), power (2x), might (2x), ability (1x), mightily (with G1722) (1x), mighty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G2479 in the following manner: strength (4x), power (2x), might (2x), ability (1x), mightily (with G1722) (1x), mighty (1x).

  1. ability, force, strength, might

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰσχύς ischýs, is-khoos'; from a derivative of ἰς is (force; compare ἔσχον éschon, a form of G2192); forcefulness (literally or figuratively):—ability, might(-ily), power, strength.
STRONGS G2479:
ἰσχύς, -ύος, ἡ, (ἴσχω [allied with ἔσχον; to hold in check]) [from Hesiod down], Sept. especially for כֹּחַ, חַיִל, עֹז, גְּבוּרָה; ability, force, strength, might: 2 Peter 2:11 (joined with δύναμις); Revelation 5:12; Revelation 7:12; τὸ κράτος τῆς ἰσχύος, power (over external things) afforded by strength, Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 6:10, (Isaiah 40:26); ἡ δόξα τῆς ἰσχ. (see δόξα, III. 3 b. α. at the end), 2 Thessalonians 1:9; κράζειν ἐν ἰσχύει, with strength, mightily, Revelation 18:2 Rec.; ἐξ ἰσχύος, of one's strength, to the extent of one's ability, 1 Peter 4:11; with ὅλης added, Mark 12:30, 33; Luke 10:27 [here L text T Tr WH read ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ ἰσχύϊ]. [Synonym: see δύναμις, at the end.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
40:26
Mark
12:30; 12:33
Luke
10:27
Ephesians
1:19; 6:10
2 Thessalonians
1:9
1 Peter
4:11
2 Peter
2:11
Revelation
5:12; 7:12; 18:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2479 matches the Greek ἰσχύς (ischys),
which occurs 256 times in 247 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 4:12–2Sa 24:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - “When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:6 - “And you know that with all my might I have served your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - “Reuben, you are my firstborn,
My might and the beginning of my strength,
The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:16 - “But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 - “Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power;
Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:13 - You in Your mercy have led forth
The people whom You have redeemed;
You have guided them in Your strength
To Your holy habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:18 - But he said:

“It is not the noise of the shout of victory,
Nor the noise of the cry of defeat,
But the sound of singing I hear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - And your strength shall be spent in vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:13 - And Moses said to the LORD: “Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - “And Edom shall be a possession;
Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession,
While Israel does valiantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - “And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:17 - “then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - “Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - ‘Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:8 - ‘So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - “He made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:11 - Bless his substance, LORD,
And accept the work of his hands;
Strike the loins of those who rise against him,
And of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - Your sandals shall be iron and bronze;
As your days, so shall your strength be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - The eternal God is your refuge,
And underneath are the everlasting arms;
He will thrust out the enemy from before you,
And will say, ‘Destroy!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:2 - And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:7 - So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:17 - And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—saying, “You are a great people and have great power; you shall not have only one lot,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:13

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 Box Jdg 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:12 - And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - So she wove it tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him,[fn] and his strength left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 - There was a relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the wicked shall be silent in darkness.

“For by strength no man shall prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces;
From heaven He will thunder against them.
The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.

“He will give strength to His king,
And exalt the horn of His anointed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20 - Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, and was dreadfully afraid because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day or all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:22 - “Now therefore, please, heed also the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:4 - Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - Then David and all the house of Israel played music before the LORD on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:18 - He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me;
For they were too strong for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:4 - Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Therefore Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

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