Strong's #2389: chazaq (pronounced khaw-zawk')
from 2388; strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent):--harder, hottest, + impudent, loud, mighty, sore, stiff(-hearted), strong(-er).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châzâq
1) strong, stout, mighty
1a) strong
1a1) severe, sharp, hot
1a2) firm, hard
1b) a strong one (substantive)
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H2388
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
Ezekiel 20:33: "the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out"
Ezekiel 20:34: "you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty and with a stretched out arm,"
Ezekiel 26:17: "the renowned which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,"
Ezekiel 30:22: "his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall"
Ezekiel 34:16: "that which was sick: the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment."
Daniel 9:15: "hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand,"
Amos 2:14: "Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force,"
