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Strong's H2389 חָזָק (chazaq)

Chazaq means “harder” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2389 — iannes (“Jannes”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2389
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 54
Books 18

Strong's H2389 Quick Answer

Strong's H2389 חָזָק (chazaq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chazaq (khaw-zawk') adj. 1. strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent) [from H2388] It has 54 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include strong, impudent, hottest, and harder. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chazaq (khaw-zawk') adj. 1. strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent) [from H2388]
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
strong, impudent, hottest, and harder

Meaning and Definition

chazaq (khaw-zawk') adj. 1. strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent) [from H2388] KJV: harder, hottest, + impudent, loud, mighty, sore, stiff(-hearted), strong(-er). Root(s): H2388

Original Word
חָזָק
Transliteration
chazaq
Derivation
Root: חזק First root strongs: 2388
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2389. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2389 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chazaq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

strong Exodus 6:1 26× impudent Ezekiel 2:4 harder Ezekiel 3:9 hottest 2 Samuel 11:15

How Strong's H2389 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 54 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2389 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2389 in the Old Testament

54 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 3:19 KJV

And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 6:1 KJV

Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

Exodus 10:19 KJV

And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2389.

Exodus 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
Exodus 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
Exodus 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
Exodus 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Exodus 32:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Numbers 13:18 Old Testament, KJV
And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Numbers 13:31 Old Testament, KJV
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Numbers 20:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Deuteronomy 3:24 Old Testament, KJV
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Deuteronomy 4:34 Old Testament, KJV
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 6:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
Deuteronomy 7:8 Old Testament, KJV
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:19 Old Testament, KJV
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Deuteronomy 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Deuteronomy 34:12 Old Testament, KJV
And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua 4:24 Old Testament, KJV
That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Joshua 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Joshua 17:18 Old Testament, KJV
But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Judges 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
1 Samuel 14:52 Old Testament, KJV
And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
2 Samuel 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
1 Kings 8:42 Old Testament, KJV
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
1 Kings 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings 18:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
1 Kings 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
2 Chronicles 6:32 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
Nehemiah 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Job 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 37:18 Old Testament, KJV
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Psalms 35:10 Old Testament, KJV
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms 136:12 Old Testament, KJV
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Proverbs 23:11 Old Testament, KJV
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Isaiah 27:1 Old Testament, KJV
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 28:2 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isaiah 40:10 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Jeremiah 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Jeremiah 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Jeremiah 32:21 Old Testament, KJV
And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
Jeremiah 50:34 Old Testament, KJV
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Ezekiel 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
Ezekiel 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:9 Old Testament, KJV
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 20:33 Old Testament, KJV
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Ezekiel 20:34 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel 26:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel 30:22 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
Ezekiel 34:16 Old Testament, KJV
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Daniel 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Amos 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2389, grouped by book.

Exodus 6 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 10 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 9 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2389 FAQ

What does chazaq (חָזָק) mean?

Chazaq (Strong's H2389) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "harder". chazaq (khaw-zawk') adj. 1. strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent) [from H2388]

How many times is chazaq (חָזָק) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's H2389 across 18 books.

Where can I study chazaq (חָזָק) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2389 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chazaq (חָזָק)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strong, impudent, hottest, and harder. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.