Strong's Lexicon

H2394

H2394 — חָזקָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchozqahnoun femOccurrences: 6TWOT: 636d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2394
Word:	חָזקָה
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	feminine of H2392
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	6
Transliteration:	chozqah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khoz-kaw'
Meaning:	1. vehemence (usually in a bad sense)
KJV Renderings:	force, mightily, repair, sharply.

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BDB2686

חָזְקָה noun feminine strength, force, violence, always בְּחָזְקָה with strength, force, etc.; —

1. of oppression Judg 4:3 forcibly, violently; capture by force 1Sam 2:16; Ezek 34:4 of ruling וּבְפָּ֑רֶךְ ׳ בְּח with force and with rigour.

2. rebuke severely, sharply Judg 8:1 cry mightily, insistently Jonah 3:8. — לֲחָזְקָה 2Kgs 12:13 see חָזַק Qal Infinitive

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חזקה (g’hez-kāh’)

Judges 4:3

KJV: And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

EHCC: twenty years he mightily oppressed

2 Kings 12:12

KJV: And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.was…: Heb. went forth

EHCC: (13). for the house to repair (it).

Ezekiel 34:4

KJV: The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

EHCC: but with force and with cruelty

Jonah 8:8

EHCC: cry mightily unto God:

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