Strong's Concordance H2388

Original Word: חָזַק
Transliteration: châzaq
Phonetic Spelling: 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, × 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.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Chronicles 22:13 - Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, H2388 and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

1 Chronicles 26:27 - Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain H2388 the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 28:7 - Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant H2388 to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

1 Chronicles 28:10 - Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, H2388 and do it.

1 Chronicles 28:20 - And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong H2388 and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 29:12 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength H2388 unto all.

2 Chronicles 1:1 - And Solomon the son of David was strengthened H2388 in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

2 Chronicles 4:5 - And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received H2388 and held three thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 7:22 - And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold H2388 on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

2 Chronicles 8:3 - And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed H2388 against it.

2 Chronicles 11:11 - And he fortified H2388 the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

2 Chronicles 11:12 - And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, H2388 having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

2 Chronicles 11:17 - So they strengthened H2388 the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

2 Chronicles 12:13 - So king Rehoboam strengthened H2388 himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 13:7 - And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand H2388 them.

2 Chronicles 13:8 - And now ye think to withstand H2388 the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

2 Chronicles 13:21 - But Abijah waxed mighty, H2388 and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 15:7 - Be ye strong H2388 therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

2 Chronicles 15:8 - And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, H2388 and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong H2388 in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

2 Chronicles 17:1 - And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened H2388 himself against Israel.

2 Chronicles 19:11 - And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, H2388 and the LORD shall be with the good.

2 Chronicles 21:4 - Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened H2388 himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 23:1 - And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened H2388 himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

2 Chronicles 24:5 - And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair H2388 the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

2 Chronicles 24:12 - And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend H2388 the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 25:3 - Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established H2388 to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2 Chronicles 25:8 - But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong H2388 for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

2 Chronicles 25:11 - And Amaziah strengthened H2388 himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

2 Chronicles 26:8 - And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened H2388 himself exceedingly.

2 Chronicles 26:9 - Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified H2388 them.

2 Chronicles 26:15 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. H2388

2 Chronicles 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed H2388 against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

2 Chronicles 27:6 - So Jotham became mighty, H2388 because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 28:15 - And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took H2388 the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:20 - And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened H2388 him not.

2 Chronicles 29:3 - He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired H2388 them.

2 Chronicles 29:34 - But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help H2388 them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

2 Chronicles 31:4 - Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged H2388 in the law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 32:5 - Also he strengthened H2388 himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired H2388 Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

2 Chronicles 32:7 - Be strong H2388 and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:

2 Chronicles 34:8 - Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair H2388 the house of the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 34:10 - And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend H2388 the house:

2 Chronicles 35:2 - And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged H2388 them to the service of the house of the LORD,

Ezra 1:6 - And all they that were about them strengthened H2388 their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

Ezra 6:22 - And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen H2388 their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Ezra 7:28 - And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened H2388 as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Ezra 9:12 - Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, H2388 and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Ezra 10:4 - Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, H2388 and do it.

Nehemiah 2:18 - Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened H2388 their hands for this good work.