Strength
עֹזStrong’s H5797oz
Appears in 91 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oz is the Hebrew word usually translated “strength”, “strength your” and “strength his”. It appears in 91 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”
Meaning
- Might, strengthmaterial or physical · personal or social or political
How it's translated
- strength 32
- strength your 15
- strength his 8
- and strength 5
- strength its 5
- and strength his 4
- strength my 4
- might my 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 43
- Proverbs 9
- Ezekiel 8
- Isaiah 6
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Job 4
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:13Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
- Leviticus 26:19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- Judges 5:21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
- Judges 9:51But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
- 1 Samuel 2:10The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 2 Samuel 6:14And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
All 91 verses, by book
- Leviticus 1
- 26:19
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2:10
- 2 Samuel 1
- 6:14
- Ezra 1
- 8:22
- Psalms 43
- 8:221:121:1328:728:829:129:1130:746:159:959:1659:1761:362:762:1163:266:368:2868:3368:3468:3571:774:1377:1478:2678:6181:184:586:1689:1089:1790:1193:196:696:799:4105:4110:2118:14132:8138:3140:7150:1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 8:1
- Amos 1
- 3:11
- Micah 1
- 5:4
- Habakkuk 1
- 3:4
Hebrew dictionary
עֹז oz · strength
1) might, strength 1a) material or physical 1b) personal or social or political
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strength” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRENGTH, noun
[See Strong.]
- That property or quality of an animal body by which it is enabled to move itself or other bodies.
- Firmness; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they sustain the application of force without breaking or yielding.
- Power or vigor of any kind.
- Power of resisting attacks; fastness; as the strength of a castle or fort.
All definitions and other forms of “strength”
- Support; that which supports; that which supplies strength; security.“God is our refuge and strength” Psalms 46:1
- Power of mind; intellectual force; the power of any faculty; as strength of memory; strength of reason; strength of judgment.
- Spirit; animation.
- Force of writing; vigor; nervous diction.
- Vividness; as strength of colors or coloring.
- Spirit; the quality of any liquor which has the power of affecting the taste, or of producing sensible effects on other bodies; as the strength of wine or spirit; the strength of an acid.
- The virtue or spirit of any vegetable, or of its juices or qualities.
- Legal or moral force; validity; the quality of binding, uniting or securing; as the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion or custom.
- Vigor; natural force; as the strength of natural affection.
- That which supports; confidence.
- Amount of force, military or naval; an army or navy; number of troops or ships well appointed.
- Soundness; force; the quality that convinces, persuades or commands assent; as the strength of an argument or of reasoning; the strength of evidence.
- Vehemence; force proceeding from motion and proportioned to it; as the strength of wind or a current of water.
- Degree of brightness or vividness; as the strength of light.
- Fortification; fortress; as an inaccessible strength [Not in use.]
- Support; maintenance of power.
STRENGTH, verb intransitive
To strengthen. [Not in use.]
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.