Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2394
חׇזְקָה
chozqahkhoz-kaw'
force
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chozqâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2394is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2394
vehemence (usually in a bad sense)
The King James renders it: force, mightily, repair, sharply.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chozqah is rendered "force". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
Judges 4:3בְּחָזְקָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- with force2
- and with force1
- by force1
- with strength1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּחָזְקָ֖ה1
- בְּחָזְקָ֑ה1
- בְחָזְקָֽה׃1
- בְּחָזְקָֽה׃1
- וּבְחָזְקָ֛ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular4HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
Judges
two uses
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
- בְּחָזְקָ֖הbechazekahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with force
Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
- בְּחָזְקָֽה׃bechazekahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with force
1 Samuel
one use
And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
- בְחָזְקָֽה׃vechazekahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: by force
Ezekiel
one use
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- וּבְחָזְקָ֛הuvechazekahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and with force
Jonah
one use
Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
- בְּחָזְקָ֑הbechazekahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with strength
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.