chzka · force, harshness

What it means

chzka (חׇזְקָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “force, harshness”.

Almost always in a bad sense: to treat someone "with force," that is, with violence and harshness. In Jonah 3:8, to cry out "mightily."

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. Violence, harshness; also crying out with all one's soul.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• force ×4
• mightily ×1
• repair it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Jonah×1

• Judges 4:3

  The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had oppressed the sons of Israel with force twenty years.

• Judges 8:1

  The men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him with force.

• 1 Samuel 2:16

  And the man would say to him, “Let them surely offer up the fat in smoke first, then take for yourself whatever your soul desires”; and he would say, “No, but now you will give it; and if not, I will take it by force.”

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and to the stonecutters, and to buy timber and quarried stones to repair the breaches of the house of YHWH, and for all that was spent on the house to repair it.

• Ezekiel 34:4

  The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the strayed you have not brought back, and the lost you have not sought; but with force you have ruled them, and with harshness.

• Jonah 3:8

  And let them be covered with sackcloth, human being and livestock, and let them cry out to Elohim mightily; and let them turn, each from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.