Words the Bible translates as strength
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 23 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- dunamisδύναμιςpower: the strength or ability to do something, especially God's effective power at work
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- a mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
- a power: a being or cosmic force that possesses power, including the heavenly bodies and spiritual powers
- meaning: the force a sound or word carries, what it signifies
- ischusἰσχύςstrength a person or being simply has: might held in reserve, whether or not it is being used at the moment
- ḥayilחַיִלstrength: effective power, the capacity to act and to prevail
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- army: an armed force, the fighting men a ruler commands
- wealth: the resources, property, and substance a person or nation has amassed
- worth: capability and strength of character that make a person able and admirable
- ko'aḥכֹּחַstrength: the capacity to act, endure, or prevail, in body, in resources, or in might
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- a kind of lizard: an unclean crawling creature in the dietary law
- ozעֹזstrength exerted on behalf of someone or against opposition: the power to prevail and protect, overwhelmingly God's
- zero'aזְרוֹעַstrength or power, pictured as the arm that wields it; often military or political might
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- the arm of a person or creature, the limb from shoulder to hand
- the shoulder or foreleg of an animal given as a priestly portion
- the arm of the LORD: God's own power, especially to rescue and to judge
- tsurצוּרa rock: a massive block of stone, a cliff or boulder, and from there a name for God as the unmovable place of safety
- gevurahגְּבוּרָהstrength to prevail: the power to overcome, and the mighty deeds that show it
- ma'ozמָעוֹזa place or source of safety and strength: a fortress to shelter behind, or the protection a person leans on for security
- onאוֹןvigor: the productive strength held in a body, above all a man's prime, and by extension the property that strength piles up
- ḥayilחַיִלstrength in action: force brought to bear, whether against people, in a fighter's body, or in a voice raised to a shout
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- an army: the armed men a ruler commands, his strength counted out in bodies
- ḥozeqחֹזֶקstrengthnot studied yet
- ḥezqahחֶזְקָהstrengthnot studied yet
- ezuzעֱזוּזstrengthnot studied yet
- otsemעֹצֶםstrengthnot studied yet
- otsmahעׇצְמָהstrengthnot studied yet
- ulאוּלstrengthnot studied yet
- eyalאֱיָלstrengthnot studied yet
- eyalutאֱיָלוּתstrengthnot studied yet
- ometsאֹמֶץstrengthnot studied yet
- amtsahאַמְצָהstrengthnot studied yet
- doveדֹּבֶאstrengthnot studied yet
- ḥezeqחֵזֶקstrengthnot studied yet
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