תֹּקֶף
tokef · authority, power
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8633 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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tokef (תֹּקֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “authority, power”.
Authority, the strength with which someone commands.
How to say it
to·kef
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
- Great might to rule.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- authority ×2
- power ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Esther 9:29
And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to establish this second letter of Purim.
- Esther 10:2
And all the deeds of his authority and of his might, and the sum of the greatness of Mordecai, with which the king made him great, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
- Daniel 11:17
And he will set his face to come with the power of all his kingdom, and bring agreements with him, and he will act; and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it; but she will not stand, nor be for him.