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Word Study · Strong's H3581 · Hebrew

כֹּחַ

koach

ko'-akh

Strong's 1890 spelling: kôach

vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard

Rendered in the KJV as

ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.

  • 126
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 79
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 126 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 79

  • כֹּ֣חַ8
  • כֹּ֔חַ8
  • כֹּ֖חַ6
  • כֹּֽחַ׃4
  • בְּכֹח֑וֹ3
  • בְּכֹחֲךָ֣3
  • כֹ֑חַ3
  • כֹּ֑חַ3
  • כֹּח֑וֹ3
  • כֹּחִ֑י3
  • בְּכֹ֣חַ2
  • בַּכֹּ֑חַ2

and 67 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 50

  • strength25
  • power11
  • strength my11
  • strength his7
  • by power his5
  • [the] strength of4
  • by strength your4
  • [is] strength3
  • [the] power of3
  • strength its3
  • strength your3
  • [is] strength my2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 19

  • noun · masculine singular42
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular15
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular13
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular9
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular8
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular6
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 42
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 15
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 13
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 9
  • HNcmsc · 8
  • HR/Ncmsa · 8
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 6
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 4
  • HR/Ncmsc · 4
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 4
  • HC/Ncmsa · 3
  • HNcmsc/Sp3fs · 2

All 126, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Job carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis3 occurrences
Exodus3 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers2 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges8 occurrences
1 Samuel4 occurrences
1 Kings1 occurrence
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles8 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job21 occurrences
Psalms11 occurrences
Proverbs5 occurrences
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
Isaiah12 occurrences
Jeremiah5 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Daniel13 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Nahum2 occurrences
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).