'Strength' in the Bible

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

Hiram set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin (may he establish), and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz (in it is strength).

The rest of Asa's accomplishments, his strength, everything that he undertook, and the cities that he fortified are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not? However, as he approached old age, he became diseased in his feet.

And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

Rather, Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt with great strength and with an outstretched arm--him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow down, and to him you shall sacrifice.

Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

"This is what Hezekiah says: "Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth. Perhaps the LORD your God will take note of everything that Rab-shakeh has said, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to taunt the living God, and then he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the survivors who remain.'"

while their inhabitants, lacking strength, stand dismayed and confused. They were like vegetation out in the fields, and like green herbs just as grass that grows on a housetop dries out before it can grow.

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his mind and with all his heart and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.

These were the heads of their fathers’ households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, warriors of valor [willing and able to encounter danger], famous men, and heads of the households of their fathers.

And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them [were] mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army.

From the men of Simeon, mighty warriors of strength for war: seven thousand one hundred.

And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders.

And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers.

and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obededom.

For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the {families}. (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.)

So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, [along with] an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all [kinds of] precious stones and alabaster stones.

To you, O Yahweh, [is] the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, [is] the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!

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 unto all.

“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

and who doth retain strength to build to Him a house, for the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Him? and who am I that I do build to Him a house, except to make perfume before Him?

He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin (may He establish) and the one on the left Boaz (in Him is strength).

Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

and worthless (unprincipled, unethical) men gathered around him, useless and wicked men, who proved too strong for Rehoboam the son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and timid, and could not assert himself against them.

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

And Asa had an army [of] three hundred thousand from Judah, bearing shields and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin [who] carried shields and drew bows. All of these [were] mighty warriors of strength.

Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God: “Lord, there is no one besides You to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, Lord our God, for we depend on You, and in Your name we have come against this large army. Yahweh, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder You.”

He prayed: "O Lord God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

"LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven, are you not? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, don't you? In your own hands you grasp both strength and power, don't you? As a result, no one can oppose you, can they? You are our God, who expelled the former inhabitants of this land right in front of our people Israel, aren't you? Then you gave it to your friend Abraham's descendant forever, didn't you?

Our God, you are going to punish them, aren't you? We have no strength to face this vast multitude that has come against us, nor do we know what to do, except that our eyes are on you."

In the seventh year Jehoiada [the priest] summoned his courage and took the captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, and they entered into a covenant with him.

The whole number of the heads of the {families} for mighty warriors of strength [was] two thousand six hundred.

And under their hand [were] army troops [numbering] three hundred and seven thousand five hundred who could make war with power and strength to help the king against an enemy.

But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar.

And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah, all men of strength, because they forsook Yahweh the God of their ancestors.

Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.

He has only human strength, but we have Yahweh our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people relied on the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword.

Then from the time that a copy of the letter of king Artaxerxes is read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they have gone in haste to Jerusalem, unto the Jews, and caused them to cease by force and strength;

He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, 'The hand of our God is upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath is upon all forsaking Him.'

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

and their brothers; mighty warriors of strength, one hundred and twenty-eight. The chief officer over them [was] Zabdiel son of Hagedolim.

and all the work of his strength, and his might, and the explanation of the greatness of Mordecai with which the king made him great, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of Media and Persia?

In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

“But now God has exhausted me.You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;I have buried my strength in the dust.

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver is strength to thee.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

My strength will be refreshed within me,and my bow will be renewed in my hand.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.

If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

Let his flesh be rejuvenated as he was in his youth! Let him recover the strength of his youth.

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Do you have strength like God? Can you create thunder with a sound like he can?"