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Lexicon :: Strong's H2389 - ḥāzāq

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חָזָק
Transliteration
ḥāzāq
Pronunciation
khaw-zawk'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 636a

Strong’s Definitions

חָזָק châzâq, khaw-zawk'; from H2388; strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent):—harder, hottest, impudent, loud, mighty, sore, stiff(-hearted), strong(-er).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x

The KJV translates Strong's H2389 in the following manner: strong (26x), mighty (20x), sore (3x), stronger (2x), harder (1x), hottest (1x), impudent (1x), loud (1x), stiffhearted (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x
The KJV translates Strong's H2389 in the following manner: strong (26x), mighty (20x), sore (3x), stronger (2x), harder (1x), hottest (1x), impudent (1x), loud (1x), stiffhearted (1x).

  1. strong, stout, mighty

    1. strong

      1. severe, sharp, hot

      2. firm, hard

    2. a strong one (subst)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָזָק châzâq, khaw-zawk'; from H2388; strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent):—harder, hottest, impudent, loud, mighty, sore, stiff(-hearted), strong(-er).
STRONGS H2389: Abbreviations
† חָזָק adjective strong, stout, mighty; — ח׳ Exodus 10:19 + 18 times; feminine חֲזָקָה Exodus 3:19 + 31 times + Ezekiel 3:14 (Co for MT verb 3rd person feminine singular); plural חֲזָקִים Judges 18:25 + 2 times; construct חִזְקֵי Ezekiel 2:4 (strike out Co. see below) Ezekiel 3:7; —
1. strong:
a. of men, rarely predicate Numbers 13:18 (opposed to רָפֶה), Numbers 13:31 (comparative with מִן), Joshua 14:11; Joshua 17:18 (all J E), Judges 18:26 (comparative with מִן); also of גֹּאֲלָם Jeremiah 50:34; Proverbs 23:11; of hand of י׳ Joshua 4:24 (D), so Ezekiel 3:14 Greek Version of the LXX Co (see above and חָזַק Qal 3); compare of Tyre הָֽיְתָה חֲזָקָה בַּיָּם Ezekiel 26:17 (strike out B Co).
b. usually attributive; of ram of Pharaoh Ezekiel 30:22 (opposed to נִשְׁבָּ֑רֶת); especially of hand of י׳ in delivering Israel from Egypt, Exodus 3:19 (gloss ? see Di), Exodus 6:1 (twice in verse); Exodus 13:9 (all J), Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 9:26; Daniel 9:15; in wonders done by agency of Moses Deuteronomy 34:12; also בְּכֹחַ גָּדוֺל וּבְיָד חֲזָקָה Exodus 31:11(JE), compare Nehemiah 1:10, but oftener ביד חזקה וּבִזְרוֺעַ נְטוּיָה Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 26:6; Jeremiah 32:21; Psalm 136:12; of control of enemies and deliverance from exile Ezekiel 20:33, 34; more generally Deuteronomy 3:24 (|| גָּדְלְךָ), 1 Kings 8:42 2 Chronicles 6:32; of י׳'s opposition to Zedekiah Jeremiah 21:5; once of Edom, opposed to Israel בעם כבד וביד חזקה Numbers 20:20 (JE).
c. of sword of י׳ Isaiah 27:1 (|| הַקָּשָׁה וְהַגְּדוֺלָה), of wind Exodus 10:19 (J), 1 Kings 19:11; sound of trumpet (= loud) Exodus 19:16 (E).
d. severe, sharp, hot, of war 1 Samuel 14:52 (predicate), battle 2 Samuel 11:15, sickness 1 Kings 17:17 (predicate), famine 1 Kings 18:2.
e. firm, hard, of face, פנים Ezekiel 3:8, forehead, מֵצַח Ezekiel 3:8; adamant, simile of forehead Ezekiel 3:9 (comparative, with מִן); of sky Job 37:18 (predicate) in plural construct לֵב ח׳ Ezekiel 2:4 hard of heart (|| קְשֵׁי פָנִים) but omitted by B Co, מֵֿצַח ח׳ Ezekiel 3:7 hard (= impudent) of forehead (|| קְשֵׁילֵֿב).
2. as substantive, a strong one, of י׳ (בְּחָזָק, as, in the character of, a strong one) Isaiah 40:10; of י׳'s agent Isaiah 28:2 (|| אַמִּץ); see also וְחָזָק לאֹ יְאַמֵּץ כֹחוֺ Amos 2:14; with מִן compare= one too strong for Jeremiah 31:11; Psalm 35:10. In Ezekiel 34:16 MT uses הח׳ in bad sense (|| הִשְּׁמֵנָה), Greek Version of the LXX Co, with different text, in good sense (see VB).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

3:19; 3:19; 6:1; 10:19; 10:19; 13:9; 19:16; 31:11

Numbers

13:18; 13:31; 20:20

Deuteronomy

3:24; 4:34; 5:15; 6:21; 7:8; 7:19; 9:26; 11:2; 26:6; 34:12

Joshua

4:24; 14:11; 17:18

Judges

18:25; 18:26

1 Samuel

14:52

2 Samuel

11:15

1 Kings

8:42; 17:17; 18:2; 19:11

2 Chronicles

6:32

Nehemiah

1:10

Job

37:18

Psalms

35:10; 136:12

Proverbs

23:11

Isaiah

27:1; 28:2; 40:10

Jeremiah

21:5; 31:11; 32:21; 50:34

Ezekiel

2:4; 2:4; 3:7; 3:7; 3:8; 3:8; 3:9; 3:14; 3:14; 20:33; 20:34; 26:17; 30:22; 34:16

Daniel

9:15

Amos

2:14

H2389

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2389 matches the Hebrew חָזָק (ḥāzāq),
which occurs 56 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 3:19–Eze 26:17)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O 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 BoxNum 13:18 - and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - Then 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 are.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:15 - You shall remember that you were a slave[fn] in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:21 - then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, 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 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:2 - And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline[fn] of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:12 - and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:52 - There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:42 - (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:10 - They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:18 - Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a cast metal mirror?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - All my bones shall say,
“O LORD, who is like you,
delivering the poor
from him who is too strong for him,
the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:12 - with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
for his steadfast love endures forever;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:11 - for their Redeemer is strong;
he will plead their cause against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 - In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2 - Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:10 - Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21 - You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:34 - Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:4 - The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:8 - Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:33 - “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you,
“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!

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