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:
2 Chronicles 34:10: "that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:"
2 Chronicles 35:2: "the priests their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,"
Ezra 1:6: "And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods,"
Ezra 6:22: "of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God,"
Ezra 7:28: "mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon"
Ezra 9:12: "or their wealth forever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good"
Ezra 10:4: "belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do"
Nehemiah 2:18: "he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good"
Nehemiah 3:4: "And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz."
Nehemiah 3:4: "of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son"
Nehemiah 3:4: "of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana."
Nehemiah 3:5: "And next unto repaired; but their nobles put not their necks"
Nehemiah 3:6: "Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son"
Nehemiah 3:7: "And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men"
Nehemiah 3:8: "Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next"
Nehemiah 3:8: "of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified"
Nehemiah 3:9: "And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half"
Nehemiah 3:10: "And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house."
Nehemiah 3:10: "his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah."
Nehemiah 3:11: "and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces."
Nehemiah 3:12: "And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half"
Nehemiah 3:13: "The valley repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they"
Nehemiah 3:14: "But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part"
Nehemiah 3:15: "But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part"
Nehemiah 3:16: "After him repaired the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part"
Nehemiah 3:17: "After him repaired Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto"
Nehemiah 3:17: "of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part"
Nehemiah 3:18: "After him repaired Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half"
Nehemiah 3:19: "And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah,"
Nehemiah 3:20: "of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning"
Nehemiah 3:21: "After him repaired the son of Urijah the son of Koz another"
Nehemiah 3:22: "And after him repaired the men of the plain."
Nehemiah 3:23: "After him repaired and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired"
Nehemiah 3:23: "over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son"
Nehemiah 3:24: "After him repaired the son of Henadad another piece, from the house"
Nehemiah 3:27: "After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great"
Nehemiah 3:28: "From above the horse repaired the priests, every one over against"
Nehemiah 3:29: "After them repaired the son of Immer over against his house. After"
Nehemiah 3:29: "over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper"
Nehemiah 3:30: "After him repaired the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son"
Nehemiah 3:30: "another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against"
Nehemiah 3:31: "After him repaired the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims,"
Nehemiah 3:32: "unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants."
Nehemiah 4:16: "wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons;"
Nehemiah 4:17: "wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon."
Nehemiah 4:21: "labored and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning"
Nehemiah 5:16: "Yea, also I continued of this wall, neither bought we any land:"
Nehemiah 6:9: "the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands."
Nehemiah 10:29: " They cleaved to their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk"
Job 2:3: "one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity,"
