Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
authority
Usage: power, strength, power (of the king), (royal) power Aramaic of shil.ton (שִׁלְטוֹן "authority" H7983)
Checen means “power” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2632 — katakrino (“condemn”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2632 חֵסֶן (checen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. checen (khay'-sen) n-m. 1. strength [(Aramaic) from H2631] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include strength and power. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
checen (khay'-sen) n-m. 1. strength [(Aramaic) from H2631] KJV: power. Root(s): H2631
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2632. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
authority
Usage: power, strength, power (of the king), (royal) power Aramaic of shil.ton (שִׁלְטוֹן "authority" H7983)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render checen, 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.
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.
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.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2632.
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2632, grouped by book.
Checen (Strong's H2632) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "power". checen (khay'-sen) n-m. 1. strength [(Aramaic) from H2631]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H2632 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2632 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strength and power. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.