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Lexicon :: Strong's H4581 - māʿôz

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מָעוֹז
Transliteration
māʿôz
Pronunciation
maw-oze'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1578a

Strong’s Definitions

מָעוֹז mâʻôwz, maw-oze'; (also מָעוּז mâʻûwz ); or מָעֹז mâʻôz (also מָעֻז mâʻuz; from H5810; a fortified place; figuratively, a defence:—force, fort(-ress), rock, strength(-en), (× most) strong (hold).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H4581 in the following manner: strength (24x), strong (4x), fortress (3x), hold (2x), forces (1x), fort (1x), rock (1x), strengthen (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H4581 in the following manner: strength (24x), strong (4x), fortress (3x), hold (2x), forces (1x), fort (1x), rock (1x), strengthen (1x).

  1. place or means of safety, protection, refuge, stronghold

    1. place of safety, fastness, harbour, stronghold

    2. refuge (of God) (fig.)

    3. human protection (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָעוֹז mâʻôwz, maw-oze'; (also מָעוּז mâʻûwz ); or מָעֹז mâʻôz (also מָעֻז mâʻuz; from H5810; a fortified place; figuratively, a defence:—force, fort(-ress), rock, strength(-en), (× most) strong (hold).
STRONGS H4581: Abbreviations
† מָעוֺז noun masculineJudges 6:26 place or means of safety, protection (MT suffixes as if from עזז, but probably erroneous, compare BuhlLex 13 Ges§ 85 k); — מ׳ absolute Judges 6:26 +, construct Isaiah 30:2 +; suffix מָעוּזִי 2 Samuel 22:33 (but read הַמְּאַזְּרֵנִי as || Psalm 18:33), מָעוּזִּי Psalm 31:3 +, מָעֻזִּי Isaiah 27:5 +, מָעוּזּוֺ Psalm 52:9 +, מָעֻזֹּה Daniel 11:10, etc. (read probably מְעוֺזִּי, etc.); plural מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:38; Daniel 11:39, suffix מָעֻזְּנֶיהָ Isaiah 23:11, read מָעֻזֶּיהָ (Ges§ 20 o CheHeb. Hpt. and others; strike out dagesh forte in all, see above); —
1. literally place of safety Judges 6:26, hence (with the collateral idea of strength, as if from עזז = fastness Isaiah 23:11, 14 (in Isaiah 23:14 CheHeb. Hpt. proposes מְחוֺזְכֶם your city), Ezekiel 24:25; Ezekiel 30:15; Daniel 11:7, 10, 19, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַמּ׳ Daniel 11:31, מִבְצְרֵי מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:39; הַיָּם מ׳ i.e. harbour Isaiah 23:4, but strike out Ol Du CheHpt.; מֵאוֺיֵב מ׳ Nahum 3:11; compare עָרֵי מ׳ Isaiah 17:9.
2.
a. figurative, of God (י׳) as refuge Nahum 1:7; Psalm 27:1; Psalm 31:5; Psalm 37:39; Psalm 52:9; Isaiah 25:4 (twice in verse); Joel 4:16 [Joel 3:16], עֻזִּי וּמָעֻזִּי וּמְנוּסִי י׳ Jeremiah 16:19, יְשׁוּעוֺת מְשִׁיחוֺ מ׳ Psalm 28:8 (|| עָזֿ); so צוּר מ׳ Isaiah 17:10; Psalm 31:3, אֱלֹהֵי מ׳ Psalm 43:2; also יַחֲזֵק בְּמָעֻזִּי Isaiah 27:5 let him lay hold of my refuge (me as refuge); compare הִיא מָעֻזְּכֶם חֶדְוַת י׳ Nehemiah 8:10, לַתֹּם דֶּרֶךְ י׳ מ׳ Proverbs 10:29.
b. of a heathen god, אֱלוֺהַּ מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:38 (read מְחֹזִים cities CheIsaiah 23:1, Heb. Hpt.).
3. figurative of human protection, פַּרְעֹה מ׳ Isaiah 30:2, 3 (both || צֵּל מִצְרַיִם); ראֹשִׁי אֶפְרַיִם מ׳ Psalm 60:9 = Psalm 108:9, i.e. my helmet; also (of angel) Daniel 11:1 (|| מַחֲזִיק).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

6:26; 6:26; 6:26

2 Samuel

22:33

Nehemiah

8:10

Psalms

18:33; 27:1; 28:8; 31:3; 31:3; 31:5; 37:39; 43:2; 52:9; 52:9; 60:9; 108:9

Proverbs

10:29

Isaiah

17:9; 17:10; 23:1; 23:4; 23:11; 23:11; 23:14; 23:14; 25:4; 27:5; 27:5; 30:2; 30:2; 30:3

Jeremiah

16:19

Ezekiel

24:25; 30:15

Daniel

11:1; 11:7; 11:10; 11:10; 11:19; 11:31; 11:38; 11:38; 11:39; 11:39

Joel

3:16

Nahum

1:7; 3:11

H4581

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Strong's Number H4581 matches the Hebrew מָעוֹז (māʿôz),
which occurs 37 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - and thou hast built an altar to Jehovah thy God on the top of this stronghold, by the arrangement, and hast taken the second bullock, and caused to ascend a burnt-offering with the wood of the shrine which thou cuttest down.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 - God -- my bulwark, my strength, And He maketh perfect my way;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - And he saith to them, 'Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:8 - Jehovah is strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed is He.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4 - Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah, Their strong place in a time of adversity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:2 - For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:7 - 'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:7 - Mine is Gilead, and mine is Manasseh, And Ephraim is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:8 - Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, And Ephraim is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29 - The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:10 - Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: 'I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:14 - Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 - For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible is as a storm -- a wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:5 - Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3 - And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:25 - And thou, son of man, Is it not in the day of My taking from them their strength, The joy of their beauty, the desire of their eyes, And the song of their soul, Their sons and their daughters?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:15 - And I have poured out My fury on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, And I have cut off the multitude of No.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:1 - 'And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing is for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - 'And one hath stood up from a branch of her roots, in his station, and he cometh in unto the bulwark, yea, he cometh into a stronghold of the king of the south, and hath wrought against them, and hath done mightily;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:10 - and his sons stir themselves up, and have gathered a multitude of great forces, and he hath certainly come in, and overflowed, and passed through, and he turneth back, and they stir themselves up unto his stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - And he turneth back his face to the strongholds of his land, and hath stumbled and fallen, and is not found.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:31 - And strong ones out of him stand up, and have polluted the sanctuary, the stronghold, and have turned aside the continual sacrifice, and appointed the desolating abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:38 - And to the god of strongholds, on his station, he giveth honour; yea, to a god whom his fathers knew not he giveth honour, with gold, and with silver, and with precious stone, and with desirable things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - And he hath dealt in the fortresses of the strongholds with a strange god whom he hath acknowledged; he multiplieth honour, and hath caused them to rule over many, and the ground he apportioneth at a price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - And Jehovah from Zion doth roar, And from Jerusalem giveth forth His voice, And shaken have the heavens and earth, And Jehovah is a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7 - Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:11 - Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.
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