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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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 a mighty hand compels him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.[fn] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - See what the land is like and whether the people who live there 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 can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - “Sovereign LORD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:15 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:21 - tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but 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 was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - I prayed to the LORD and said, “Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:2 - Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his 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 an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:12 - For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - So the Danites went their way, and Micah, seeing that they were too strong for him, turned around and went back home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:52 - All the days of Saul there was bitter war with the Philistines, and whenever Saul saw a mighty or brave man, he took him into his service.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:42 - for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to present 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 - The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was 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 - “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:10 - “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:18 - can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:12 - with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;

His love endures forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:11 - for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 - In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2 - See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour, he will throw it forcefully to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:10 - See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:34 - Yet their Redeemer is strong; the LORD Almighty is his name. He will vigorously defend their cause so that he may bring rest to their land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:4 - The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:8 - But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:33 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will reign over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

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