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Hebrew adjective · H6099

עָצוּם

atsumaw-tsoom'

mighty

31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻâtsûwm

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6099is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6099

powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous

The King James renders it: [phrase] feeble, great, mighty, must, strong.

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

atsum is rendered "mighty". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 18:18וְעָצ֑וּם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • mighty15
  • and mighty10
  • and numerous2
  • numerous2
  • among mighty his1
  • the mighty1

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 31, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 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

  • וְעָצ֖וּם3
  • וַעֲצֻמִ֖ים3
  • עָצ֥וּם3
  • עָצ֑וּם3
  • עָצ֣וּם2
  • עָצ֖וּם2
  • בַּ֝עֲצוּמָ֗יו1
  • הָעֲצוּמִים֙1
  • וְעָצ֑וּם1
  • וְעָצ֔וּם1
  • וַעֲצוּמִ֖ים1
  • וַעֲצוּמִ֑ים1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine singular11HAamsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural7HC/Aampa
  • adjective · masculine plural6HAampa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular5HC/Aamsa
  • preposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Aampc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HTd/Aampa

Genesis

one use
  • Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

    Genesis 18:18

    • וְעָצ֑וּםveatzumconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and mighty

Exodus

one use
  • “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

    Exodus 1:9

    • וְעָצ֖וּםveatzumconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and mighty

Numbers

three uses
  • I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

    Numbers 14:12

    • וְעָצ֖וּםveatzumconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and mighty
  • So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”

    Numbers 22:6

    • עָצ֥וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty
  • Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

    Numbers 32:1

    • עָצ֣וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: numerous

Deuteronomy

six uses
  • to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

    Deuteronomy 4:38

    • וַעֲצֻמִ֛יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty
  • When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

    Deuteronomy 7:1

    • וַעֲצוּמִ֖יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty
  • Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

    Deuteronomy 9:1

    • וַעֲצֻמִ֖יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty
  • Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

    Deuteronomy 9:14

    • עָצ֥וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty
  • then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

    Deuteronomy 11:23

    • וַעֲצֻמִ֖יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty
  • and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

    Deuteronomy 26:5

    • עָצ֥וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Joshua

one use
  • The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

    Joshua 23:9

    • וַעֲצוּמִ֑יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty

Psalms

three uses
  • They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

    Psalms 10:10

    • בַּ֝עֲצוּמָ֗יוbaatzumavpreposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: among mighty his
  • Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.

    Psalms 35:18

    • עָצ֣וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: numerous
  • He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

    Psalms 135:10

    • עֲצוּמִֽים׃ʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

Proverbs

three uses
  • For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

    Proverbs 7:26

    • וַ֝עֲצֻמִ֗יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and numerous
  • Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.

    Proverbs 18:18

    • עֲצוּמִ֣יםʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

    Proverbs 30:26

    • עָצ֑וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Isaiah

three uses
  • the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

    Isaiah 8:7

    • הָעֲצוּמִים֙haatzumimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the mighty
  • Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

    Isaiah 53:12

    • עֲצוּמִים֮ʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

    Isaiah 60:22

    • עָצ֑וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Daniel

two uses
  • His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.

    Daniel 8:24

    • עֲצוּמִ֖יםʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.

    Daniel 11:25

    • וְעָצ֖וּםveatzumconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and mighty

Joel

four uses
  • For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

    Joel 1:6

    • עָצ֖וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty
  • a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

    Joel 2:2

    • וְעָצ֔וּםveatzumconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and mighty
  • With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

    Joel 2:5

    • עָצ֔וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty
  • The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

    Joel 2:11

    • עָצ֖וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Amos

one use
  • For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

    Amos 5:12

    • וַעֲצֻמִ֖יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and numerous

Micah

two uses
  • Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.

    Micah 4:3

    • עֲצֻמִ֖יםʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.

    Micah 4:7

    • עָצ֑וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Zechariah

one use
  • And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”

    Zechariah 8:22

    • עֲצוּמִ֔יםʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

The letters

Gematria 206· 766 mispar gadol

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.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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