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 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
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
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.
The words it stands beside
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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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—
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וַעֲצוּמִ֑יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and mighty
Psalms
three uses
They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
- 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.
- עָצ֣וּםʾatzumadjective · masculine singulartagged: numerous
He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
- עֲצוּמִֽים׃ʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
Proverbs
three uses
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- וַ֝עֲצֻמִ֗יםvaatzumimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and numerous
Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.
- עֲצוּמִ֣יםʾatzumimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
