atsam · be mighty, numerous

What it means

atsam (עָצַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be mighty, numerous”.

Be mighty, become strong or numerous. Also shut the eyes.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To become mighty and grow in strength.
2. To be numerous beyond counting.
3. To squeeze the eyelids shut so as not to see something.
4. To crush the bones of prey until they break.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• strong ×6
• mighty ×3
• have become strong ×2
• became more numerous ×1
• has gnawed its bones ×1
• he has shut ×1
• made them stronger ×1
• shuts ×1
• they are more ×1
• they are too many ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Daniel×3

• Genesis 26:16

  Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you have become much mightier than we.”

• Exodus 1:7

  But the sons of Israel were fruitful, swarmed, multiplied, and grew strong, very, very much, and the land was filled with them.

• Exodus 1:20

  And Elohim dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very strong.

• Psalms 38:19

  And my enemies are alive, they are strong, and many are those who hate me with lies.

• Psalms 40:5

  Many things you have done, you, YHWH my Elohim, your wonders and your thoughts toward us; there is none to compare with you; were I to declare and speak of them, they are too many to count.

• Psalms 40:12

  For evils have surrounded me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has abandoned me.

• Psalms 69:4

  More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would annihilate me, my enemies with lies; what I did not steal, then I restore.

• Psalms 105:24

  And he made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

• Psalms 139:17

  And to me how precious are your thoughts, El; how vast is the sum of them.

• Isaiah 29:10

  For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

• Isaiah 31:1

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and YHWH they do not seek!

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks in righteous deeds and speaks uprightly, who rejects the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding a bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

• Jeremiah 5:6

  Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them, a wolf of the steppes will devastate them, a leopard is watching over their cities; everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces, for their transgressions are many, their apostasies are mighty.

• Jeremiah 15:8

  Their widows became more numerous before me than the sand of the seas; I brought upon them, upon the mother of the young man, a destroyer at noonday; I made fall upon her suddenly anguish and terrors.

• Jeremiah 30:14

  All your lovers have forgotten you; you they do not seek; for with the wound of an enemy I have struck you, with the correction of a cruel one, because of the multitude of your iniquity; your sins have become strong.

• Jeremiah 30:15

  Why do you cry out over your breaking? Beyond remedy is your pain. Because of the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins have become strong, I have done these things to you.

• Jeremiah 50:17

  A scattered sheep is Israel; lions have driven it away; the first devoured it, the king of Assyria; and this last one has gnawed its bones, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

• Daniel 8:8

  And the male goat made itself great exceedingly; and when it was strong, the great horn was broken, and there came up four conspicuous horns in its place toward the four winds of the heavens.

• Daniel 8:24

  And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power; and he will destroy astonishingly, and prosper, and act, and destroy mighty ones and the people of the saints.

• Daniel 11:23

  And from the time an alliance is made with him he will act deceitfully, and he will go up and become strong with a small nation.