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:
Jeremiah 52:6: "day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread"
Ezekiel 7:13: "thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life."
Ezekiel 13:22: "whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return"
Ezekiel 16:49: "was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
Ezekiel 22:14: "endure, can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal"
Ezekiel 27:9: "of Gebal men thereof were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships of the sea"
Ezekiel 27:27: "thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all"
Ezekiel 30:21: "to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword."
Ezekiel 30:24: " And I will strengthen of the king of Babylon, and put my sword"
Ezekiel 30:25: " But I will strengthen of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down;"
Ezekiel 34:4: "The diseased strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither"
Ezekiel 34:16: "that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong;"
Daniel 10:18: "and touched of a man, and he strengthened"
Daniel 10:19: "fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened,"
Daniel 10:19: "not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said,"
Daniel 10:19: "yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for"
Daniel 10:19: "Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened"
Daniel 10:21: "in the Scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things,"
Daniel 11:1: "of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen"
Daniel 11:5: "And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;"
Daniel 11:5: "and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great"
Daniel 11:6: "shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begot her, and he that strengthened her in these times."
Daniel 11:7: "into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:"
Daniel 11:21: "of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries."
Daniel 11:32: "but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do"
Hosea 7:15: "Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against"
Micah 4:9: "perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail."
Micah 7:18: "and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger forever,"
Nahum 2:1: "the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily."
Nahum 3:14: "Draw thee waters fortify thy strongholds: go into clay, and tread"
Nahum 3:14: "into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln."
Haggai 2:4: "Yet now be strong, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son"
Haggai 2:4: "saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high"
Haggai 2:4: "of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith"
Zechariah 8:9: "of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days"
Zechariah 8:13: "fear not, but let your hands be strong."
Zechariah 8:23: "it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations,"
Zechariah 8:23: "out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew,"
Zechariah 14:13: "tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand"
Malachi 3:13: "Your words have been stout me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken"
