H2388 Definition

Strong's number
H2388
Lemma
חָזַק
Transliteration
châzaq
Pronunciation
khaw-zak'
Strong's definition
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer aid, amend, [idiom] 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. a primitive root;

266 instances of the word חָזַק châzaq (H2388)


  • Exodus 9:35 - was hardened And the heart of Pharaoh go neither would he let the children of Israel had spoken as the LORD by Moses

  • Ezra 10:4 - Arise for this matter belongeth unto thee we also will be with thee be of good courage and do

  • Jeremiah 10:4 - it with silver and with gold They deck it with nails and with hammers they fasten that it move

  • 2 Samuel 10:11 - And he said be too strong If the Syrians for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee then I will come and help

  • 2 Samuel 10:12 - Be of good courage Be of good courage for our people and for the cities of our God and the LORD do him good that which seemeth

  • Daniel 10:18 - Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man and he strengthened

  • Daniel 10:19 - And said fear O man not peace be unto thee be strong be unto thee be strong And when he had spoken be unto thee be strong And said And when he had spoken Let my lord be unto thee be strong

  • Exodus 10:20 - hardened But the LORD heart Pharaoh's go so that he would not let the children of Israel

  • Daniel 10:21 - But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth and there is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael your prince

  • Joshua 10:25 - said And Joshua unto them Fear not nor be dismayed be strong and of good courage do for thus shall the LORD to all your enemies against whom ye fight

  • Exodus 10:27 - hardened But the LORD heart Pharaoh's and he would not let them go

  • Nehemiah 10:29 - They clave to their brethren their nobles and entered into a curse and into an oath law in God's which was given by Moses the servant in God's and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his judgments and his statutes

  • Daniel 11:1 - year Also I in the first of Darius the Mede to confirm and to strengthen

  • Daniel 11:5 - and he shall be strong And the king of the south and one of his princes and he shall be strong above him and have dominion dominion shall be a great his dominion

  • Daniel 11:6 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together daughter for the king's of the south and they that brought for the king's of the north to make an agreement but she shall not retain the power nor his arm neither shall he stand nor his arm but she shall be given up and they that brought her and he that begat her and he that strengthened her in these times

  • Daniel 11:7 - shall one stand up But out of a branch of her roots in his estate and shall enter with an army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north and shall deal against them and shall prevail

  • Deuteronomy 11:8 - Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and go in and possess the land which whither ye go and possess

  • Exodus 11:10 - And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh hardened and the LORD heart Pharaoh go out so that he would not let the children of Israel of his land

  • 1 Chronicles 11:10 - These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom and with all Israel to make him king according to the word of the LORD and with all Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 11:11 - And he fortified the strong holds and put captains in them and store of victual and of oil and wine

  • 2 Chronicles 11:12 - And in every several city And in every several city he put shields and spears strong and made them exceeding having Judah and Benjamin

  • 2 Chronicles 11:17 - So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah strong and made Rehoboam the son and Solomon years for three they walked in the way of David and Solomon years for three

  • Joshua 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts that they should come against in battle Israel that he might destroy them utterly and that they might have no favour but that he might destroy commanded For it was of the LORD Moses

  • Daniel 11:21 - shall stand up And in his estate a vile person to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom but he shall come in peaceably and obtain of the kingdom by flatteries

  • 2 Samuel 11:25 - Thus shalt thou say Then David unto the messenger Thus shalt thou say unto Joab displease Let not this thing one as well as another devoureth thee for the sword it and encourage make thy battle against the city and overthrow it and encourage

  • Daniel 11:32 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do

  • 2 Kings 12:5 - take Let the priests it to them every man of his acquaintance and let them repair the breaches of the house shall be found the breaches

  • 2 Kings 12:6 - year and twentieth But it was so that in the three year of king Jehoash had not repaired the priests the breaches of the house

  • 2 Kings 12:7 - called Then king Jehoash for Jehoiada and the other priests and the other priests and said unto them Why repair it for the breaches of the house now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance it for the breaches of the house but deliver

  • 2 Kings 12:8 - consented And the priests neither to receive more money of the people neither to repair the breaches of the house

  • 2 Kings 12:12 - And to masons and hewers of stone and to buy timber of stone and hewed to repair the breaches for the house of the LORD and for all that was laid out for the house to repair

  • 2 Chronicles 12:13 - strengthened So king Rehoboam himself in Jerusalem and he reigned old and forty was one years Rehoboam and he reigned seventeen years and he reigned himself in Jerusalem the city had chosen which the LORD to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel his name there And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess

  • 2 Kings 12:14 - that to the workmen But they gave and repaired therewith the house of the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 12:23 - Only be sure and thou mayest not eat for the blood for the blood is the life and thou mayest not eat is the life with the flesh

  • Exodus 12:33 - were urgent And the Egyptians upon the people in haste that they might send them out of the land for they said We be all dead

  • 2 Chronicles 13:7 - And there are gathered men unto him vain the children of Belial and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the children of Solomon themselves against Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted and could not withstand them

  • 2 Chronicles 13:8 - And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David multitude and ye be a great calves and there are with you golden made which Jeroboam you for gods

  • 2 Samuel 13:11 - And when she had brought them unto him to eat he took hold of her and said unto her Come lie with me my sister

  • 2 Samuel 13:14 - Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice but being stronger than she forced her and lay

  • Numbers 13:20 - And what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not And be ye of good courage and bring of the fruit And what the land Now the time Now the time of the firstripe grapes

  • 2 Chronicles 13:21 - waxed mighty But Abijah and married wives fourteen and begat twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters

  • Ezekiel 13:22 - sad ye have made the heart of the righteous Because with lies whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not return way from his wicked by promising him life

  • 2 Samuel 13:28 - had commanded Now Absalom his servants and when I say Mark is merry heart Amnon with wine and when I say unto you Smite Amnon then kill him fear had commanded you be courageous and be valiant

  • Exodus 14:4 - And I will harden heart Pharaoh's that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured Pharaoh's and upon all his host may know that the Egyptians that I am the LORD And they did

  • 2 Kings 14:5 - was confirmed And it came to pass as soon as the kingdom in his hand that he slew his servants that he slew the king his father

  • Exodus 14:8 - hardened And the LORD the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued after and the children of Israel and the children of Israel went out hand with an high

  • Zechariah 14:13 - And it shall come to pass in that day tumult from the LORD that a great shall be among them and they shall lay hold every one against the hand of his neighbour shall rise up against the hand against the hand of his neighbour

  • Exodus 14:17 - And I behold I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians and they shall follow them and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host upon his chariots and upon his horsemen

  • 2 Samuel 15:5 - came nigh And it was so that when any man to him to do him obeisance he put forth his hand and took him and kissed

  • 2 Chronicles 15:7 - Be ye strong be weak therefore and let not your hands shall be rewarded for your work

  • 2 Chronicles 15:8 - heard And when Asa these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim and renewed the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD

  • 2 Kings 15:19 - came And Pul the king of Assyria against the land gave and Menahem And Pul a thousand talents of silver in his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand

  • 1 Samuel 15:27 - turned about And as Samuel he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and it rent

  • 2 Chronicles 16:9 - of the LORD For the eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him Herein thou hast done foolishly therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars

  • 2 Samuel 16:21 - said And Ahithophel unto Absalom Go in concubines of thy father which he hath left to keep the house shall hear and all Israel that thou art abhorred of thy father of all that are with thee be strong then shall the hands

  • 1 Kings 16:22 - prevailed But the people that followed Omri against But the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath died Tibni reigned Omri

  • Judges 16:26 - said And Samson unto the lad that held him by the hand Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth that I may lean

  • Judges 16:28 - called And Samson GOD and said O Lord unto the LORD remember me I pray thee and strengthen me I pray thee only this once O God avenged that I may be at once for my two eyes of the Philistines

  • Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold this was the iniquity Sodom of thy sister pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters the hand of the poor and needy neither did she strengthen

  • 2 Chronicles 17:1 - reigned And Jehoshaphat his son in his stead and strengthened himself against Israel

  • Joshua 17:13 - were waxen strong Yet it came to pass when the children of Israel that they put the Canaanites to tribute but did not utterly but did not utterly

  • 1 Samuel 17:35 - And I went out after and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth and when he arose against me I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew

  • 1 Samuel 17:50 - prevailed So David over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the Philistine and slew him but there was no sword in the hand So David

  • 2 Samuel 18:9 - met And Absalom the servants of David And Absalom rode and the mule went and the mule under the thick boughs oak of a great caught hold and his head oak and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth and the mule that was under him went away

  • Job 18:9 - shall take him by the heel The gin shall prevail and the robber

  • Judges 19:4 - retained And his father in law father the damsel's him and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodged

  • 2 Chronicles 19:11 - And behold Amariah priest the chief is over you in all matters and the LORD and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael the ruler of the house of Judah is over you in all matters for all the king's shall be officers also the Levites before courageously you Deal and the LORD shall be with the good

  • 1 Chronicles 19:12 - And he said be too strong If the Syrians for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee then I will help

  • 1 Chronicles 19:13 - Be of good courage Be of good courage for our people and for the cities of our God and let the LORD that which is good in his sight do

  • Genesis 19:16 - And while he lingered laid hold and upon the hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters being merciful the LORD unto him and they brought him forth and set him without the city

  • Judges 19:25 - would But the men not hearken took to him so the man his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning they let her go began to spring and when the day

  • Judges 19:29 - And when he was come into his house he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel

  • Jeremiah 20:7 - me and I was deceived O LORD me and I was deceived thou art stronger than I and hast prevailed I am in derision daily every one mocketh

  • 1 Kings 20:22 - came And the prophet the king of Israel and said strengthen thyself and mark and see what thou doest for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up

  • Judges 20:22 - encouraged And the people the men of Israel again in array themselves and set their battle in the place in array day the first

  • 1 Kings 20:23 - And the servants of the king of Syria said are gods of the hills are gods therefore they were stronger than we but let us fight against them in the plain and surely therefore they were stronger

  • 1 Kings 20:25 - And number like the army like the army that thou hast lost for horse for horse and chariot and chariot and we will fight them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than they And he hearkened unto their voice and did so

  • 1 Chronicles 21:4 - word Nevertheless the king's prevailed Wherefore Joab departed Wherefore Joab and went throughout all Israel and came to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 21:4 - was risen up Now when Jehoram to the kingdom of his father he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with the sword and divers also of the princes of Israel

  • Genesis 21:18 - Arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand nation him a great for I will make

  • 2 Kings 22:5 - And let them deliver it into the hand it to the doers of the work that have the oversight of the house of the LORD And let them deliver it to the doers of the work of the house of the LORD to repair the breaches of the house

  • 2 Kings 22:6 - Unto carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber stone and hewn to repair the house

  • 1 Chronicles 22:13 - Then shalt thou prosper if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments charged which the LORD Moses with concerning Israel be strong and of good courage dread not nor be dismayed

  • Ezekiel 22:14 - endure Can thine heart be strong or can thine hands in the days it and will do with thee I the LORD have spoken it and will do

  • Isaiah 22:21 - And I will clothe him with thy robe him with thy girdle and strengthen thy government and I will commit into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah

  • Deuteronomy 22:25 - in the field find But if a man damsel a betrothed force But if a man her and lie with her shall die But if a man her and lie

  • 2 Chronicles 23:1 - year And in the seventh strengthened Jehoiada himself and took the captains of hundreds Azariah the son of Jeroham and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan Azariah the son of Obed and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah and Elishaphat the son of Zichri into covenant

  • Joshua 23:6 - courageous Be ye therefore very to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left

  • Jeremiah 23:14 - also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an horrible thing they commit adultery and walk in lies they strengthen also the hands of evildoers doth return that none from his wickedness they are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah

  • 1 Samuel 23:16 - arose And Jonathan son Saul's to David into the wood and strengthened his hand in God

  • 2 Samuel 24:4 - prevailed word Notwithstanding the king's And Joab and against the captains of the host went out And Joab and against the captains of the host from the presence Notwithstanding the king's to number the people of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 24:5 - And he gathered together the priests Howbeit the Levites and said to them Go out unto the cities of Judah And he gathered together of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from to year to year and see that ye hasten the matter and see that ye hasten Howbeit the Levites

  • 2 Chronicles 24:12 - gave And the king and Jehoiada it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD and hired masons and also such as wrought to repair of the house of the LORD and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend of the house of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 25:3 - was established Now it came to pass when the kingdom to him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father

  • 2 Kings 25:3 - And on the ninth day of the fourth month prevailed the famine in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land

  • 2 Chronicles 25:8 - But if thou wilt go do it be strong for the battle and to cast down God before the enemy hath power God to help and to cast down

  • Deuteronomy 25:11 - strive her husband together her husband one with another draweth near and the wife of the one for to deliver her husband her hand of him that smiteth him and putteth forth her hand and taketh him by the secrets

  • 2 Chronicles 25:11 - And Amaziah strengthened himself and led forth his people to the valley of salt and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand

  • Leviticus 25:35 - be waxen poor And if thy brother and fallen in decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him yea though he be a stranger or a sojourner

  • 2 Chronicles 26:8 - gave And the Ammonites gifts to Uzziah and his name even to the entering in of Egypt for he strengthened himself exceedingly