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Force

אֶדְרַעStrong’s H0153

edra (ed-ra)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Edra is the Aramaic word usually translated “force”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.”
Ezra 4:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. Strong, force, arm, power
How it's translated
  • with force 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    אֶדְרַע edra · force

    strong, force, arm, power Aramaic of ze.ro.a (זְרוֹעַ "arm" H2220)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “force” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    FORCE, noun

    [Latin fortis. All words denoting force power, strength, are from verbs which express straining, or driving, rushing, and this word has the elements of Latin vireo.]

    1. Strength; active power; vigor; might; energy that may be exerted; that physical property in a body which may produce action or motion in another body, or may counteract such motion.
    2. Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.
    3. That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.
    4. Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power.
    All definitions and other forms of “force”
    1. Strength; moral power to convince the mind.
    2. Virtue; efficacy.
    3. Validity; power to bind or hold. Hebrews 9:17
    4. Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force:sometimes in the plural; as military forces.
    5. Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.
    6. Internal power; as the force of habit.
    7. In law, any unlawful violence to person or property.

    FORCE, verb transitive

    1. To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible.
    2. To overpower by strength.
    3. To impel; to press; to drive; to draw or push by main strength; a sense of very extensive use; as, to force along a wagon or a ship; to force away a man's arms; water forces its way through a narrow channel; a man may be forced out of his possessions.
    4. To enforce; to urge; to press.
    5. To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.
    6. To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.
    7. To ravish; to violate by force as a female.
    8. To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.
    9. To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.
    10. To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison. obsolete

    FORCE, verb intransitive

    1. To lay stress on. obsolete
    2. To strive. obsolete
    3. To use violence.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.