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;
Ezra 9:12 - not your daughters Now therefore give to your children not your daughters neither take to your children nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever that ye may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever
Ezra 10:4 - Arise for this matter belongeth unto thee we also will be with thee be of good courage and 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
Genesis 21:18 - Arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand nation him a great for I will make
Genesis 41:56 - And the famine was over all the face in the land opened And Joseph all the storehouses and sold waxed sore And the famine in the land of Egypt
Genesis 41:57 - And all countries came into Egypt for to buy to Joseph was so sore corn because that the famine And all countries
Genesis 47:20 - bought And Joseph all the land for the Egyptians became Pharaoh's sold his field prevailed because the famine over them so the land became Pharaoh's
Genesis 48:2 - And one told Jacob and said Behold thy son Joseph cometh strengthened unto thee and Israel himself and sat upon the bed
Haggai 2:4 - Yet now be strong O Zerubbabel for I am with you saith the LORD Yet now be strong O Joshua son of Josedech priest the high Yet now be strong all ye people of the land for I am with you saith the LORD and work for I am with you saith the LORD of hosts
Hosea 7:15 - Though I have bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief
Isaiah 4:1 - shall take hold seven women man of one And in that day saying our own bread We will eat our own apparel and wear only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach
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
Isaiah 27:5 - Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace peace that he may make
Isaiah 28:22 - Now therefore be ye not mockers be made strong lest your bands a consumption even determined for I have heard from the Lord of hosts upon the whole earth
Isaiah 33:23 - are loosed Thy tacklings strengthen they could not well their mast they could not spread the sail divided then is the prey spoil of a great the lame take the prey
Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen hands ye the weak knees the feeble and confirm
Isaiah 35:4 - Say to them that are of a fearful heart Be strong fear even God with vengeance he will come with a recompence even God he will come and save
Isaiah 39:1 - At that time sent Merodachbaladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon letters and a present to Hezekiah for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered
Isaiah 41:6 - every one his neighbour They helped to his brother and every one said Be of good courage
Isaiah 41:7 - and he fastened So the carpenter the goldsmith and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil saying for the sodering It is ready and he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved