Strong's numbers

חָזַק (H2388)

châzaq

khaw-zak'

a primitive root; to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer; aid, amend, [idiom] calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.

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266 occurrences

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• Judges 19:29
  And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
• Judges 20:22
  And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
• 1 Samuel 4:9
  Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
• 1 Samuel 15:27
  And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
• 1 Samuel 17:35
  And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
• 1 Samuel 17:50
  So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
• 1 Samuel 23:16
  And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 1 Samuel 30:6
  And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
• 2 Samuel 1:11
  Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
• 2 Samuel 2:7
  Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.