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;
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
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
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
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
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
Ezekiel 3:14 - So the spirit lifted me up and took me away in bitterness in the heat So the spirit but the hand of the LORD was strong
Ezekiel 7:13 - For the seller to that which is sold shall not return although they were yet alive although they were yet alive for the vision is touching the whole multitude shall not return neither shall any himself in the iniquity although they were yet alive strengthen
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
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
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
Ezekiel 27:9 - The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise
Ezekiel 27:27 - Thy riches and thy fairs of thy merchandise thy mariners and thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise of war that are in thee and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin
Ezekiel 30:21 - Son of man the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt I have broken and lo it shall not be bound up to be healed to put a roller and lo it shall not be bound up it to make it strong to hold the sword
Ezekiel 30:24 - And I will strengthen arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand but I will break arms Pharaoh's and he shall groan him with the groanings of a deadly wounded before
Ezekiel 30:25 - But I will strengthen and the arms of the king of Babylon and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down and they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt
Ezekiel 34:4 - The diseased have ye not strengthened The diseased neither have ye healed that which was broken neither have ye bound up that which was driven away neither have ye brought again that which was lost neither have ye sought but with force have ye ruled and with cruelty
Ezekiel 34:16 - that which was lost I will seek that which was driven away and bring again that which was broken and will bind up that which was sick and will strengthen the fat and the strong but I will destroy I will feed them with judgment
Ezra 1:6 - And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver with gold with goods and with beasts and with precious things beside all that was willingly offered
Ezra 6:22 - And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy had made them joyful for the LORD and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God of God of Israel
Ezra 7:28 - And hath extended mercy unto me before and before all the king's and his counsellors princes and before all the king's mighty And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up