Strong’s H5794 · Hebrew
עַז
ʻaz · az
Origin from עָזַז (H5810);
Meaning strong, vehement, harsh
In the King James Version fierce, [phrase] greedy, mighty, power, roughly, strong.
In 23 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 49:3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- Genesis 49:7Cursed 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.
- Exodus 14:21And 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.
- Numbers 13:28Nevertheless 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.
- Numbers 21:24And 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
- Judges 14:14And 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.
- Judges 14:18And 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:18He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
- Nehemiah 9:11And 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.
- Psalms 18:17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
- Psalms 59:3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
- Proverbs 18:23The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
- Proverbs 21:14A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
- Proverbs 30:25The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
- Song of Songs 8:6Set 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.
- Isaiah 19:4And 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.
- Isaiah 25:3Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
- Isaiah 43:16Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
- Isaiah 56:11Yea, 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.
- Ezekiel 7:24Wherefore 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.
- Daniel 8:23And 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.
- Amos 5:9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.