Strong's #2388: chazaq (pronounced khaw-zak')
a primitive root; to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer:--aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châzaq
1) to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be strong, grow strong
1a1a) to prevail, prevail upon
1a1b) to be firm, be caught fast, be secure
1a1c) to press, be urgent
1a1d) to grow stout, grow rigid, grow hard (bad sense)
1a1e) to be severe, be grievous
1a2) to strengthen
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to make strong
1b2) to restore to strength, give strength
1b3) to strengthen, sustain, encourage
1b4) to make strong, make bold, encourage
1b5) to make firm
1b6) to make rigid, make hard
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make strong, strengthen
1c2) to make firm
1c3) to display strength
1c4) to make severe
1c5) to support
1c6) to repair
1c7) to prevail, prevail upon
1c8) to have or take or keep hold of, retain, hold up, sustain, support
1c9) to hold, contain
1d) (Hithpael)
1d1) to strengthen oneself
1d2) to put forth strength, use one' s strength
1d3) to withstand
1d4) to hold strongly with
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 290 times:
Judges 19:25: "hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto"
Judges 19:29: "he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve"
Judges 20:22: "And the people the men encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array"
1 Samuel 4:9: " Be strong, and quit O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as"
1 Samuel 15:27: "And as Samuel turned about he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent."
1 Samuel 17:35: "it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew"
1 Samuel 17:50: "So David prevailed the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote"
1 Samuel 23:16: "to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God."
1 Samuel 30:6: "and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God."
2 Samuel 1:11: "Then David took hold and rent them; and likewise all the men that"
2 Samuel 2:7: "Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master"
2 Samuel 2:16: " And they caught every one by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down"
2 Samuel 3:6: "and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul."
2 Samuel 3:29: "from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword,"
2 Samuel 10:11: "me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help"
2 Samuel 10:11: "And he said, If be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if"
2 Samuel 10:12: " Be of good courage, and let us play the men our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD"
2 Samuel 10:12: "Be of good courage, and let us play the men our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD"
2 Samuel 11:25: "devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow"
2 Samuel 11:25: "more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage"
2 Samuel 13:11: "And when she had brought them unto he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with"
2 Samuel 13:14: "not unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with"
2 Samuel 13:28: "have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant."
2 Samuel 15:5: "he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed"
2 Samuel 16:21: "of all that are with thee be strong."
2 Samuel 18:9: "of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven"
2 Samuel 24:4: "Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host."
1 Kings 1:50: "of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar."
1 Kings 2:2: "of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;"
1 Kings 2:28: "unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar."
1 Kings 9:9: "their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods,"
1 Kings 16:22: "that Omri prevailed against the people that followed"
1 Kings 20:22: "of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what"
1 Kings 20:23: "are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight"
1 Kings 20:23: "let us fight against them in the plain, and surely, we shall be stronger we shall be stronger than"
1 Kings 20:25: "for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger"
2 Kings 2:12: "thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces."
2 Kings 3:26: "that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven"
2 Kings 4:8: "where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft"
2 Kings 4:27: "of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away."
2 Kings 12:5: "of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,"
2 Kings 12:6: "Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house."
2 Kings 12:7: "and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house?"
2 Kings 12:8: "of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house."
2 Kings 12:12: "timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 12:14: "But they gave and repaired therewith the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 14:5: "And it came to pass, as soon as was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants"
2 Kings 15:19: "that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand."
2 Kings 22:5: "which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,"
2 Kings 22:6: "timber and hewn stone to repair the house."
