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:
Job 2:9: "Then said his wife retain thine integrity? curse God, and die."
Job 4:3: "Behold, thou hast instructed and thou hast strengthened the weak hands."
Job 8:15: "but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."
Job 8:20: "cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers:"
Job 18:9: "shall take and the robber shall prevail against"
Job 27:6: "My righteousness I hold fast, let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live."
Psalms 27:14: "Wait on be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on"
Psalms 31:24: " Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen all ye that hope in the LORD."
Psalms 35:2: " Take hold of shield and stand up for mine help."
Psalms 64:5: " They encourage themselves in an evil they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who"
Psalms 147:13: "For he hath strengthened of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within"
Proverbs 3:18: "She is a tree to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth"
Proverbs 4:13: " Take fast hold of instruction; go: keep her; for she is thy life."
Proverbs 7:13: " So she caught him, and kissed face said"
Proverbs 26:17: "strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears."
Isaiah 4:1: "day women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat"
Isaiah 22:21: "And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be"
Isaiah 27:5: "Or let him take hold that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace"
Isaiah 28:22: "therefore be ye not mockers, your bands be made strong: for I have heard from"
Isaiah 33:23: "are loosed; well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail:"
Isaiah 35:3: " Strengthen ye the weak and confirm the feeble knees."
Isaiah 35:4: "Say to them that are of a fearful Be strong, fear not: behold, your God"
Isaiah 39:1: "for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered."
Isaiah 41:6: "his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage."
Isaiah 41:7: "So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote"
Isaiah 41:7: "It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved."
Isaiah 41:9: "Thou whom I have taken of the earth, and called thee from the chief men"
Isaiah 41:13: "I thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not;"
Isaiah 42:6: "the LORD thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant"
Isaiah 45:1: "to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose"
Isaiah 51:18: "the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all"
Isaiah 54:2: "not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;"
Isaiah 56:2: "this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting"
Isaiah 56:4: "and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;"
Isaiah 56:6: "that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;"
Isaiah 64:7: "that calleth that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from"
Jeremiah 5:3: "to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return."
Jeremiah 6:23: " They shall lay hold on bow they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice"
Jeremiah 6:24: "thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail."
Jeremiah 8:5: "slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."
Jeremiah 8:21: "am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold"
Jeremiah 10:4: "They deck it with silver they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Jeremiah 20:7: "O LORD, thou hast deceived thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,"
Jeremiah 23:14: "they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none"
Jeremiah 31:32: "with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land"
Jeremiah 49:24: "to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail."
Jeremiah 50:33: "together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go."
Jeremiah 50:42: " They shall hold the bow they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice"
Jeremiah 50:43: "of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail."
Jeremiah 51:12: "the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes:"
