Definition

strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent)

Etymology

from H2388 (חָזַק);

Where the KJV renders it

• harder
• hottest
• impudent
• loud
• mighty
• sore
• stiff(-hearted)
• strong(-er)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.