Biblica Analytica
H2389 Hebrew

חָזָק

cha.zaq

strong

Lexicon Entry

Definition
strong
Transliteration
cha.zaq
Strong's Number
H2389
Occurrences
56
Semantic Domain
Body & Health

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

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# חָזָק (chazaq): Strength and Firmness in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *chazaq* carries the fundamental meaning of "strong" and appears 56 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates its importance as a core descriptor in Hebrew thought. The word functions primarily as an adjective, used to characterize physical power, stability, or intensity—whether describing people, objects, or abstract qualities. Its consistent presence across the biblical corpus suggests that the concept of strength was central to how ancient Hebrew speakers understood and communicated about their world. The lexical range of *chazaq* encompasses both literal and figurative applications. It could describe physical robustness—a strong person or fortification—but also extended to metaphorical uses representing moral or spiritual fortitude, divine power, or the intensity of emotions and conditions. This semantic flexibility allowed biblical authors to express strength across multiple registers, from concrete military or physical contexts to theological assertions about God's power or human resolve. The 56 occurrences distributed throughout various biblical books suggest the word was standard vocabulary rather than specialized terminology. Understanding *chazaq* illuminates how biblical Hebrew conceptualized strength as a fundamental category of human and divine experience. Rather than being a peripheral concern, strength—whether physical, moral, or divine—emerges as a substantive concept worthy of repeated, varied expression throughout scripture.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H2389
Lemma
חָזָק
Transliteration
cha.zaq
Definition
strong
Occurrences
56
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

56 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Nehemiah 1:10

“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

Job 5:15

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 37:18

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Psalms 35:10

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Psalms 136:12

with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Isaiah 27:1

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

Isaiah 40:10

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Jeremiah 21:5

I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

Jeremiah 31:11

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

Jeremiah 32:21

and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Ezekiel 2:4

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

Ezekiel 3:8

Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 3:8

Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 3:9

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 20:33

As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.

Ezekiel 20:34

I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

Ezekiel 26:17

They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”

Ezekiel 30:22

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezekiel 34:16

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Daniel 9:15

“Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

Amos 2:14

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

Proverbs 23:11

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Exodus 3:19

I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 6:1

Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

Exodus 6:1

Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

Exodus 10:19

Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Exodus 13:9

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 19:16

On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Exodus 32:11

Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Numbers 13:18

See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

Numbers 13:31

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 20:20

He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

Deuteronomy 26:8

Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

Deuteronomy 3:24

“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 5:15

You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 6:21

then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deuteronomy 7:8

but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:19

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deuteronomy 9:26

I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 11:2

Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,

Deuteronomy 34:12

and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Joshua 4:24

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’ ”

Joshua 14:11

As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

Joshua 17:18

but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

Judges 18:26

The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

1 Samuel 14:52

There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.