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Force

אֶדְרַעStrong’s H2220

edra (ed-ra)

Appears in 84 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Edra is the Hebrew word usually translated “arm”, “arms of” and “arms his”. It appears in 84 verses of the Old Testament.

“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Daniel 10:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Strong, force, arm, power
How it's translated
  • and by an arm 8
  • arms of 6
  • arms his 5
  • arm of 5
  • arm his 5
  • and arm his 4
  • an arm 4
  • and arm your 4

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 16
  • Psalms 13
  • Ezekiel 11
  • Deuteronomy 9
  • Job 6
  • Jeremiah 5

20 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 84 verses, by book
Genesis 1
49:24
Exodus 2
6:615:16
Numbers 1
6:19
Judges 2
15:1416:12
1 Samuel 1
2:31
2 Samuel 2
1:1022:35
1 Kings 1
8:42
2 Kings 2
9:2417:36
2 Chronicles 2
6:3232:8
Proverbs 1
31:17
Song of Solomon 1
8:6
Hosea 2
7:1511:3
Zechariah 1
11:17
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.