Strong
תַּקִּיףStrong’s H8624taqqiph (taq-qiph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taqqiph is the Aramaic word usually translated “strong”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
Meaning
- Might, strong, mighty
How it's translated
- strong 4
- and strong 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:42In contextAnd as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
- Daniel 4:3In contextHow great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Ezra 4:20There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Aramaic dictionary
תַּקִּיף taqqiph · strong
might, strong, mighty Aramaic of taq.qiph (תַּקִּיף "mighty" H8623)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strong” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRONG, adjective
[G., Latin The sense of the radical word is to stretch, strain, draw, and probably from the root of stretch and reach.]
- Having physical active power, or great physical power; having the power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.“That our oxen may be strong to labor” Psalms 144:14
- Having physical passive power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; solid; as a constitution strong enough to bear the fatigues of a campaign.
- Well fortified; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as a strong fortress or town.
- Having great military or naval force; powerful; as a strong army or fleet; a strong nation; a nation strong at sea.
All definitions
- Having great wealth, means or resources; as a strong house or company of merchants.
- Moving with rapidity; violent; forcible; impetuous; as a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; we had a strong tide against us.
- Hale; sound; robust; as a strong constitution.
- Powerful; forcible; cogent; adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; as a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example or instance.
- Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as a strong partisan; a strong whig or tory.
- Having virtues of great efficacy; or having a particular quality in a great degree; as a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea; strong coffee.
- Full of spirit; intoxicating; as strong liquors.
- Affecting the sight forcibly; as strong colors.
- Affecting the taste forcibly; as the strong flavor of onions.
- Affecting the smell powerfully; as a strong scent.
- Not of easy digestion; solid; as strong meat. Hebrews 5:7
- Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as a custom grown strong by time.
- Violent; vehement; earnest.“Who in the day of his flesh, when he offered up prayers with strong crying and tears--” Hebrews 5:7
- Able; furnished with abilities.
- Having great force of mind, of intellect or of any faculty; as a man of strong powers of mind; a man of a strong mind or intellect; a man of strong memory, judgment or imagination.
- Having great force; comprising much in few words.
- Bright; glaring; vivid; as a strong light.
- Powerful to the extent of force named; as an army ten thousand strong
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.