Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H2388: חָזַק (châzaq) 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)


  • 2 Chronicles 34:10 - And they put it in the hand it to the workmen that had the oversight in the house of the LORD And they put it to the workmen it to the workmen in the house of the LORD to repair and amend in the house

  • 2 Chronicles 35:2 - And he set the priests in their charges and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD

  • 2 Kings 2:12 - And Elisha saw it and he cried My father My father the chariot of Israel and the horsemen saw him no more and he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces

  • 2 Kings 3:26 - saw And when the king of Moab was too sore that the battle for him he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords to break through And when the king of Edom but they could

  • 2 Kings 4:8 - And it fell on a day as he passed by that Elisha to Shunem woman where was a great and she constrained him to eat bread And so it was that as oft as he passed by he turned him to eat bread

  • 2 Kings 4:27 - And when she came And the man of God to the hill she caught him by the feet came near but Gehazi to thrust her away said And the man of God Let her alone for her soul is vexed within her and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Samuel 1:11 - took hold Then David on his clothes and rent

  • 2 Samuel 2:7 - be strengthened Therefore now let your hands and be ye valiant is dead for your master Saul have anointed and also the house of Judah me king

  • 2 Samuel 2:16 - And they caught every one by the head his fellow and thrust his sword side his fellow so they fell down together was called wherefore that place Helkathhazzurim which is in Gibeon