atsum · mighty, numerous

What it means

atsum (עָצוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mighty, numerous”.

Strong, mighty; numerous.

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. Having great strength or many people: a mighty nation.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• mighty ×16
• mightier ×7
• numerous ×3
• strong ×3
• how great ×1
• stronger ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×2
• Joel×4
• Amos×1
• Micah×2
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 18:18

  since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

• Exodus 1:9

  He said to his people, “Look, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.

• Numbers 14:12

  I will strike them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

• Numbers 22:6

  And now, come, please, curse this people for me, for they are mightier than I. Perhaps I will be able to strike them and drive them out of the land; for I know that whom you bless is blessed, and whom you curse is cursed.”

• Numbers 32:1

  The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had much livestock, very numerous; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and look, the place was a place for livestock.

• Deuteronomy 4:38

  to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you from before you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

• Deuteronomy 9:1

  Hear, Israel: you are crossing today the Jordan to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 9:14

  Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they.”

• Deuteronomy 11:23

  YHWH will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

• Deuteronomy 26:5

  And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.

• Joshua 23:9

  And YHWH has dispossessed before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

• Psalms 10:10

  He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall before his strong ones.

• Psalms 35:18

  I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among a numerous people I will praise you.

• Psalms 135:10

  who struck many nations and killed mighty kings:

• Proverbs 7:26

  For many wounded she has brought down, and numerous are all those she has killed.

• Proverbs 18:18

  The lot puts an end to strife, and between the mighty it decides.

• Proverbs 30:26

  the rock badgers, a people not mighty, and they make their house in the crag;

• Isaiah 8:7

  therefore, look, Adonai is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks;

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Isaiah 60:22

  The least will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation; I, YHWH, will hasten it in its time.

• 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 11:25

  And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with a great army, and exceedingly mighty, but he will not stand, for they will devise plans against him.

• Joel 1:6

  For a nation has come up against my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

• Joel 2:2

  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness; like the dawn spread over the mountains, a people great and mighty; its like has never been from of old, and after it there will not be again, to the years of generation after generation.

• Joel 2:5

  Like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap, like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty people arrayed for battle.

• Joel 2:11

  And YHWH utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great; for mighty is the one who carries out his word; for great is the day of YHWH and very fearsome; and who can endure it?

• Amos 5:12

  For I know how many are your transgressions and how great your sins: you who harass the righteous, who take a ransom, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

• Micah 4:3

  And he will judge between many peoples and decide for mighty nations far away; and they will beat their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

• Micah 4:7

  And I will make the lame a remnant, and the one driven far off a mighty nation; and YHWH will reign over them on Mount Zion from now and forever.

• Zechariah 8:22

  And many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek YHWH Tsevaot in Jerusalem and to implore the face of YHWH.