Might
תְּקָףStrong’s H8633tiqaph (ti-qaph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tiqaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “authority”, “power his” and “power of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.”
Meaning
- Strength, might
How it's translated
- authority 1
- power his 1
- with power of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 9:29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
- Esther 10:2And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Hebrew dictionary
תְּקָף tiqaph · might
strength, might Aramaic of to.qeph (תֹּ֫קֶף "power" H8633)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “authority” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AUTHOR'ITY, noun
[Latin auctoritas.]
- Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children.
- The power derived from opinion, respect or esteem; influence of character or office; credit; as the authority of age or example, which is submitted to or respected, in some measure, as a law, or rule of action.
- Testimony; witness; or the person who testifies; as, the Gospels or the evangelists are our authorities for the miracles of Christ.
- Weight of testimony; credibility; as a historian of no authority
All definitions
- Weight of character; respectability; dignity; as a magistrate of great authority in the city.
- Warrant; order; permission.“By what authority dost thou these things” Matthew 21:23
- Precedents, decisions of a court, official declarations, respectable opinions and says, also the books that contain them, are call authorities, as they influence the opinions of others; and in law, the decisions of supreme courts have a binding force upon inferior courts, and are called authorities.
- Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as the local authorities of the states.
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.