Strong's #6105: `atsam (pronounced aw-tsam')
a primitive root; to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; denominatively (from 6106) to crunch the bones:--break the bones, close, be great, be increased, be (wax) mighty(-ier), be more, shut, be(-come, make) strong(-er).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âtsam
1) to be vast, be numerous, be mighty
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be mighty
1a2) to be numerous
1b) (Hiphil) to make strong, make mighty
2) to shut (the eyes), close (the eyes)
2a) (Qal) to shut (the eyes)
2b) (Piel) to shut tightly (the eyes)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1673, 1674
Usage:
This word is used 20 times:
Genesis 26:16: "Go from us; for thou art much mightier than"
Exodus 1:7: "were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled"
Exodus 1:20: "with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty."
Psalms 38:19: "But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied."
Psalms 40:5: "unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
Psalms 40:12: "have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs"
Psalms 69:4: "of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which"
Psalms 105:24: "his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies."
Psalms 139:17: "also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum"
Isaiah 29:10: "upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets"
Isaiah 31:1: "and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto"
Isaiah 33:15: "that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing"
Jeremiah 5:6: "thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased."
Jeremiah 15:8: "Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother"
Jeremiah 30:14: "the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased."
Jeremiah 30:15: "the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these"
Jeremiah 50:17: "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones."
Daniel 8:8: "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn"
Daniel 8:24: "And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice,"
Daniel 11:23: "him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people."