Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
strong
Usage: strong, mighty, fierce
Az means “strong” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5794 עַז (`az) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `az (az) adj. 1. strong, vehement, harsh [from H5810] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include strong, fierce, mighty, power, and roughly. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`az (az) adj. 1. strong, vehement, harsh [from H5810] KJV: fierce, + greedy, mighty, power, roughly, strong. Root(s): H5810
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strong
Usage: strong, mighty, fierce
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `az, 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.
23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5794.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5794, grouped by book.
Az (Strong's H5794) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "strong". `az (az) adj. 1. strong, vehement, harsh [from H5810]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H5794 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5794 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strong, fierce, mighty, power, roughly, and greedy. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.