חָזָק
chazak · strong, hard
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2389 · appears 56 times in the Bible
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chazak (חָזָק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strong, hard”.
Strong, mighty ("a strong hand"); also hard, stubborn ("hard of heart").
How to say it
cha·zak
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
- Of great power or intensity: a hand, a wind or a famine no one can withstand.
- Unbending, stubborn, or very harsh.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Strong, firm; also hard or stubborn. It is the adjective of the verb חָזַק (‘be strong, strengthen’, H2388). The expression ‘strong hand’ describes the power with which YHWH brought Israel out of Egypt.
- “With a strong hand and with an outstretched arm” Deuteronomy 6:21Psalms 136:12Exodus 3:19
- The strong redeemer Proverbs 23:11
- A strong wind, a severe famine 1 Kings 19:111 Kings 18:2
- The fiercest of the battle 2 Samuel 11:151 Samuel 14:52
- Hard of forehead and of heart Ezekiel 3:7Ezekiel 3:8
How we translate it
“Strong” 41 times, also in the formula “a strong hand”, which recurs the same way in Exodus, Deuteronomy, the Psalms and Ezekiel 20:33-34, so that the reader recognizes the expression. In Ezekiel 3:7-9, where it is about stubbornness, “hard” and “harder”; in Isaiah 40:10, “with might”; “severe” of a famine (1 Kings 18:2); with a comparison, “one stronger” or “the fiercest” (2 Samuel 11:15).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- strong ×41
- hard ×3
- one stronger ×2
- severe ×2
- are stronger ×1
- fierce ×1
- fiercest ×1
- harder ×1
- loud ×1
- might ×1
- others ×2
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus×7
- Numbers×3
- Deuteronomy×10
- Joshua×3
- Judges×1
- 1 Samuel×1
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×4
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Nehemiah×1
- Job×2
- Psalms×2
- Proverbs×1
- Isaiah×3
- Jeremiah×4
- Ezekiel×10
- Daniel×1
- Amos×1
- Exodus 3:19
But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, and not by a strong hand.
- Exodus 6:1
YHWH said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
- Exodus 10:19
And YHWH turned it into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:9
It shall be for you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, so that the instruction of YHWH may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YHWH brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 19:16
On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a horn, very loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 32:11
But Moses pleaded before YHWH his Elohim and said, “Why, YHWH, does your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
- Numbers 13:18
and see the land, what it is like, and the people who live in it, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,
- Numbers 13:31
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
- Numbers 20:20
But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against him with a heavy force and with a strong hand.
- Deuteronomy 3:24
“Adonai YHWH, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in the heavens or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds?
- Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 5:15
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH your Elohim brought you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore YHWH your Elohim has commanded you to celebrate the day of the Sabbath.
- Deuteronomy 6:21
then you shall say to your son, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
- Deuteronomy 7:8
but because of YHWH’s love for you, and because he kept the oath that he swore to your fathers, YHWH brought you out with a strong hand and ransomed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 7:19
the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which YHWH your Elohim brought you out. So YHWH your Elohim will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 9:26
I prayed to YHWH and said, “Adonai YHWH, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you ransomed by your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.
- Deuteronomy 11:2
Know today —for I am not speaking with your children, who have not known and who have not seen— the discipline of YHWH your Elohim, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,
- Deuteronomy 26:8
And YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.
- Deuteronomy 34:12
and for all the strong hand and for all the great terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
- Joshua 4:24
so that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of YHWH, that it is strong, so that you may fear YHWH your Elohim all the days.”
- Joshua 14:11
I am still strong today as on the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and for coming in.
- Joshua 17:18
but the hill country shall be yours; for it is forest, and you will clear it, and its ends shall be yours; for you will dispossess the Canaanite, though he has iron chariots, though he is strong.”
- Judges 18:26
And the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he turned and went back to his house.
- 1 Samuel 14:52
The war was fierce against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he gathered him to himself.
- 2 Samuel 11:15
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Put Uriah in front of the fiercest battle, and withdraw from behind him, so that he is struck and dies.”
- 1 Kings 8:42
— for they will hear of your great name and of your strong hand and of your outstretched arm — when he comes and prays toward this house,
- 1 Kings 17:17
And it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.
- 1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.
- 1 Kings 19:11
He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before YHWH.” And there, YHWH was passing by, and a great and strong wind was tearing mountains and breaking rocks before YHWH; YHWH was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake; YHWH was not in the earthquake.
- 2 Chronicles 6:32
And also to the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, but he comes from a distant land for the sake of your great name, your strong hand, and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,
- Nehemiah 1:10
And they are your servants and your people, whom you ransomed by your great power and by your strong hand.
- Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the strong the needy.
- Job 37:18
will you spread out with him the clouds, strong like a mirror of cast metal?
- Psalms 35:10
All my bones will say, “YHWH, who is like you, who delivers the afflicted from one stronger than he, and the afflicted and the needy from the one who robs him?”
- Psalms 136:12
with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, for his loyal love is forever.
- Proverbs 23:11
for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their case against you.
- Isaiah 27:1
On that day YHWH will punish, with his sword —the hard, the great, and the strong— Leviathan the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 28:2
Look, Adonai has one strong and mighty, like a downpour of hail, a destroying storm, like a downpour of mighty waters that sweep away; he casts it down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 40:10
Look, Adonai YHWH comes with might, and his arm rules for him; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.
- Jeremiah 21:5
And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, and with anger and with fury and with great wrath.
And 16 more times.