Strong's G2479 ἰσχύς (ischys)

When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.

And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, Thou my strength, and the first of my children, Hard to be endured, hard and self-willed.

And for this purpose hast thou been preserved, that I might display in thee my strength, and that my name might be published in all the earth.

Thy right hand, O God, has been glorified in strength; Thy right hand, O God, has broken the enemies.

Thou hast guided in thy righteousness this thy people whom thou hast redeemed, By thy strength thou hast called them into thy holy resting place.

And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Wherefore, O Lord, art thou very angry with thy people, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with thy high arm?

And Moses says, It is not the voice of them that begin the battle, nor the voice of them that begin the cry of defeat, but the voice of them that begin the banquet of wine do I hear.

And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.

And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might.

And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spokest, saying,

And Edom shall be an inheritance, And Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance of Israel, And Israel wrought valiantly.

Lord God, thou hast begun to show to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou hast done, and according to thy might?

Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt,

Lest thou shouldest say in thy heart, My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth.

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord swore to thy fathers, as at this day.

And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst redeem, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great power, and with thy strong hand, and with thy high arm.

And these are thy people and thy portion, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great strength, and with thy mighty hand, and with thy high arm.

And the Lord brought us out of Egypt himself with his great strength, and his mighty hand, and his high arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders.

He brought them up on the strength of the land; He fed them with the fruits of the fields; They sucked honey out of the rock, And oil out of the solid rock.

Bless, Lord, his strength, And accept the works of his hands; Break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, And let not them that hate him rise up.

His sandal shall be iron and brass; As thy days, so shall be thy strength.

And the rule of God shall protect thee, And that under the strength of the everlasting arms; And he shall cast forth the enemy from before thy face, Saying, Perish.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver Jericho into thy power, and its king in it, and its mighty men.

And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.

And Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, every one mighty in strength.

I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

And Joshua said to the sons of Joseph, If thou art a great people, and hast great strength, thou shalt not have only one inheritance.

And the angel of the Lord turned to him, and said, Go in this thy strength, and thou shalt save Israel out of the hand of Midian: behold, I have sent thee.

And the princes of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength is, and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give thee each eleven hundred pieces of silver.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein is thy great strength, and wherewith thou shalt be bound that thou mayest be humbled.

And the liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he broke the cords as if anyone should break a thread of tow when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known.

And Delilah said to Samson, How sayest thou, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? this third time thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein is thy great strength.

Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy one of God from my mother’s womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all other men.

And Delilah made Samson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him.

And Samson said, Let my life perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Samson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.

And Naomi had a friend an acquaintance of her husband, and the man was a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

Granting his petition to him that prays; And he blesses the years of the righteous, For by strength cannot man prevail.

The Lord will weaken his adversary; The Lord is holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, And let not the rich man boast in his wealth; But let him that boasts boast in this, To understand and know the Lord, And to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: He will judge the extremities of the earth, And he gives strength to our kings, And will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,

And Saul instantly fell at his full length upon the earth, and was greatly afraid because of the words of Samuel; and there was no longer any strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all that day, and all that night.

And now hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of thy handmaid, and I will set before thee a morsel of bread, and eat, and thou shalt be strengthened, for thou wilt be going on thy way.

And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.

And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.

He delivered me from my strong enemies, From them that hated me, for they were stronger than I.

And the king said to Joab commander of the host, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, and I will know the number of the people.

Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab and the captains of the host: And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel.

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb.

Now Naaman, the captain of the host of Syria, was a great man before his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria, and the man was mighty in strength, but a leper.

And Menahem raised the silver by a tax upon Israel, even on every mighty man in wealth, to give to the king of the Assyrians, fifty shekels levied on each man; and the king of the Assyrians departed, and remained not there in the land.

but only to the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great strength and with a high arm: him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship; to him shall ye sacrifice.

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; and after him there rose not one like him.

And he carried away the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand prisoners, and every artificer and smith: and only the poor of the land were left.

for Judah was very mighty even among his brethren, and one was to be a ruler out of him: but the blessing was Joseph’s).

And they fought on the side of David against a troop, for they were all men of might; and they were commanders in the army, because of their might.

Of the sons of Simeon mighty for battle, seven thousand and a hundred.

And Zadok, a young man mighty in strength, and there were twenty-two leaders of his father’s house.

And of the sons of Ephraim, twenty thousand and eight hundred mighty men, famous in the houses of their fathers.

Glory and praise are in his presence; Strength and rejoicing are in his place.

Give to the Lord, ye families of the nations, Give to the Lord glory and strength.

Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for thou art Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before thy face every king and nation is troubled.

From thee come wealth and glory: thou, O Lord, rulest over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in thy hand is strength and rule; and thou art almighty with thy hand to increase and establish all things.

And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left: and he called the name of the one on the right hand, Stability, and the name of the one on the left, Strength.

And now, O Lord God, arise into thy resting place, Thou, and the ark of thy strength: Let thy priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation, And thy sons rejoice in prosperity.

And Jeroboam did not recover strength again all the days of Abijah: and the Lord smote him, and he died.

And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above, and art not thou Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? and is there not in thy hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist thee?

O Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no strength to resist this great multitude that is come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them: but our eyes are toward thee.

Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.

and with them was a warrior force, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred: these waged war mightily to help the king against his enemies.

And Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, slew in Judah in one day a hundred and twenty thousand mighty men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

And as for his strength and valor, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of thy words?

For what they have collected, the just shall eat; But they shall not be delivered out of calamities: Let their strength be utterly exhausted.

For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

What? have I made any demand of you? Or do I ask for strength from you,

But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, Because I do not ask strength of you.

For indeed he is strong in power: Who then shall resist his judgment?

With him are strength and power: He has knowledge and understanding.

And would there were strength in my mouth, And I would not spare the movement of my lips.

Though he should come on me in his great strength, Then he would not threaten me;

To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? Is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm?

He has calmed the sea with his might, And by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? For them the full term of life was lost.

With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

If I made gold my treasure, And if too I trusted the precious stone;

And if I ate its strength alone without price, And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: Being mighty in strength of wisdom,

Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside From the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: For who is powerful as he is?

And we do not find another his equal in strength: As for him that judges justly, dost thou not think that he listens?

And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? And wilt thou commit thy works to him?

He paws exulting in the plain, And goes forth in strength into the plain.

Behold now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the navel of his belly.

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue is glued to my throat; And thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

The voice of the Lord is mighty; The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

The Lord will give strength to his people; The Lord will bless his people with peace.

For my life is spent with grief, And my years with groanings: My strength has been weakened through poverty, And my bones are troubled.

A king is not saved by reason of a great host; And a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength.

My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; And the light of mine eyes is not with me.

Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thy hand.

because thou wert my hope, A tower of strength from the face of the enemy.

Who dost establish the mountains in thy strength, Being girded about with power;

Cast me not off at the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength fails.

And he gave their strength into captivity, And their beauty into the enemy’s hand.

He answered him in the way of his strength: Tell me the fewness of my days.

Bless the Lord, all ye his angels, Mighty in strength, who perform his bidding, Ready to hearken to the voice of his words.

He has declared to his people the power of his works, To give them the inheritance of the heathen.

The Lord is my strength and my song, And is become my salvation.

Great is our Lord, and great is his strength; And his understanding is infinite.

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors come into the houses of strangers;

Counsel and safety are mine: Prudence is mine, and strength is mine.

Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; But where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: And he leaves his children a support.

In the houses of the righteous is much strength: But the fruits of the ungodly shall perish.

The name of the Lord is of great strength; And the righteous running to it are exalted.

the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer;