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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.)
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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 - And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Astaroth, and Carnain, and strong nations with them, and the Ommæans in the city Save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very grievous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:19 - And the sounds of the trumpet were waxing very much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - But the men that went up together with him said, We [fn]will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - And he said, Thou shalt not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Thy dwelling-place is strong; yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - to destroy nations [fn]great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - And when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before thee, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - Hear, O Israel: Thou goest this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:17 - For the Lord your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not [fn]accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - Take diligent heed that thou eat no blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that ye might worship the Lord our God in every work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gabaon was a great city, as one of the [fn]chief cities, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - And the Lord shall destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - Then went down the remnant to the strong, the people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - And he said to them, Meat came forth of the eater, and sweetness out of the strong: and they could not tell the riddle for three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before sunrise, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? and Sampson said to them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye would not have known my riddle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - And Abessalom sent to Achitophel the Theconite, the counsellor of David, from his city, from Gola, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong [fn]conspiracy; and the people with Abessalom were increasingly numerous.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:31 - As for the Mighty One, his way is blameless: the word of the Lord is strong and tried in the fire: he is a protector to all that put their trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - Who is strong, but the Lord? and who will be a Creator except our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 - It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, and has prepared my way without fault.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 - The Lord who avenges me is strong, chastening the nations under me,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - For my house is not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire is, that the wicked should not flourish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - And the man Jeroboam was very strong; and Solomon saw the young man that he was [fn]active, and he set him over the levies of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried Joachim away to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into [fn]captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:24 - And these were the heads of the houses of their families; Opher, and Sei, and Eliel, and Jeremia, and Oduia, and Jediel, mighty men of valour, men of renown, heads of the houses of their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - And the sons of Thola; Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jemasan, and Samuel, chiefs of their fathers' houses belonging to Thola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, were men mighty to set armies in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied their wives and children.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, also mighty men, were eighty-seven thousand—this was the number of them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 - And the sons of Bale; Esebon, and Ozi, and Oziel, and Jerimuth, and Uri, five; heads of houses of families, mighty men; and their number was twenty and two thousand and thirty-four.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - And their number according to their generations, (they were chiefs of their fathers' houses, men of might), was twenty thousand and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 - All these were the sons of Jediel, chiefs of their families, men of might, seventeen thousand and two hundred, going forth to war with might.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the sons of Aser, all heads of families, choice, mighty men, chief leaders: their number for battle array—their number was twenty-six thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:40 - And the sons of Ælam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their brethren, chiefs of their families, a thousand seven hundred and sixty, mighty men for the work of the ministration of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - (LXX 12:9) And from Gad these separated themselves to David from the wilderness, strong mighty men of war, bearing shields and spears, and their faces were as the face of a lion, and they were nimble as roes upon the mountains in speed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - And there were powerful kings in Jerusalem, and they ruled over all the country beyond the river, and abundant revenues and tribute were given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - And I said, Nay, I pray thee, O Lord God of heaven, the mighty, the great and terrible, keeping thy covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to those that keep his commandments:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - But thou in thy many mercies didst not appoint them to destruction, and didst not forsake them; for thou art strong, and merciful, and pitiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping thy covenant and thy mercy, let not all the trouble seem little in thy sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:13 - And thou hast said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:29 - Behold, all these things the Mighty One works in a threefold manner with a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:31 - For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge:

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