chozqah (force) · Rightly

Meaning

Force, might, strength, violence

How it's translated

with force 2
by force 1
and with force 1
with strength 1

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

Where it's used most

Judges 2
1 Samuel 1
Ezekiel 1
Jonah 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Judges 8:1And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
1 Samuel 2:16And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
Ezekiel 34:4The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Jonah 3:8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Hebrew dictionary

חׇזְקָה chozqah · force

force, might, strength, violence

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.]

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.
Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.
That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.
Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power.

All definitions and other forms of “force”

Strength; moral power to convince the mind.
Virtue; efficacy.
Validity; power to bind or hold. Hebrews 9:17
Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force:sometimes in the plural; as military forces.
Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.
Internal power; as the force of habit.
In law, any unlawful violence to person or property.

FORCE, verb transitive

To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible.
To overpower by strength.
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.
To enforce; to urge; to press.
To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.
To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.
To ravish; to violate by force as a female.
To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.
To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.
To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison. obsolete

FORCE, verb intransitive

To lay stress on. obsolete
To strive. obsolete
To use violence.

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