'Strength' in the Bible

When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."

Now you yourselves know that I have served your father with all my strength,

Reuben, you [are] my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.

But for the sake of this I have caused you to stand--for the sake of showing you my strength and in order to proclaim my name in all the earth.

And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day when you went out from Egypt, from a house of slaves, because with strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from here, and [food with] yeast will not be eaten.

And when your son asks you {in the future}, saying, 'What [is] this?' you will say to him, 'With strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from a house of slaves.

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as symbolic ornaments between your eyes that with strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt."

Yah [is] my strength and song, and he has become my salvation; this [is] my God, and I will praise him--the God of my father--and I will exalt him.

In your loyal love you led [the] people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided [them] to the abode of your holiness.

And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron and your land like copper.

And your strength shall be consumed {in vain}; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit.

But now {our strength is dried up}; there is nothing whatsoever except {for the manna before us}."

God, who brings them out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for them.

God, who brings him out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour [the] nations [who are] his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce [them with] his arrows.

And because he loved your ancestors he chose their {descendants} after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt {with his own presence}, by his great strength,

And you may think in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for} me.'

But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he [is] the [one] giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors {as it is today}.

"And you must keep all [of] the commandments that I [am] commanding you {today}, so that you may have strength and [you may] go and [you may] take possession of that land {to which you are crossing} to take possession of it,

Your bars [are] iron and bronze, and as your days, [so is] your strength."

Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength [was] then, so now also [is] my strength for war {and for daily activities}.

The wadi torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, [with] strength!

And Yahweh turned to him and said, "Go in this your strength, and you will deliver Israel from the palm of Midian. Did I not send you?"

And the rulers of [the] Philistines came up to her and said, "Entice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes your strength so great, and with what can you be tied up to subdue you?"

The ambush [was] sitting [in wait] for her in an inner room. And she said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you Samson!" And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And [the secret of] his strength remained unknown.

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is [so] great."

So {he confided everything to her}, and he said to her, "A razor {has never touched} my head, for I [am] a {Nazirite of God} {from birth}. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else.

And she put him to sleep on her lap; then she called the men and shaved off seven locks of his head. Then she began to subdue him, and his strength went away from him.

And Samson called to Yahweh and said, "My Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay [with] one act of revenge to [the] Philistines for my eyes."

And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." And he pushed with [all his] strength, and the house fell on the rulers and all of the people who [were] with him. And the dead whom he killed in his death were more than those he killed in his life.

And all of the people who [were] at the gate and the elders said, "[We are] witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman coming into your house as Rachel and as Leah, who {together} built the house of Israel. May you have strength in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem.

Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in Yahweh, my strength [is] exalted in Yahweh; {I grin} over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation.

The bows of mighty warriors [are] shattered, but those who stumble gird [themselves with] strength.

Yahweh will shatter his adversaries; he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

Look, days [are] coming when I will cut off your {strength} and the {strength} of the house of your ancestor {so that no one in your house will live to old age}.

{Then Saul immediately fell prostrate} to the ground, and he was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was no more strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night.

So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and [you] eat so that {you will have strength} in you when you go on your way."

Then David and the people who [were] with him raised their voices and wept until there was not [enough] strength in them to weep.

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy {grew in strength}, and the people [were] going and {increasing} with Absalom.

I take refuge in God, my rock, my shield, and the {strength} of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence!

You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me.

So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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.

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'A day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace is this day, for the children {are about to be born}, but there is no strength to bear them.

Now these [were] the heads of their fathers' households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, {famous men}, heads of their fathers' households.

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.

Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all [their] strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually!

Splendor and majesty [are] before him; strength and joy [are] in his place.

Ascribe to Yahweh, O clans of the nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!

All these from the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons, and their brothers [were] men of ability with strength for service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

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!

And wealth and glory [are] from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand [is] power and might. And in your hand [is power] to make great and to give strength to all.

Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and {the highest heavens} are not able to contain him. Now who [am] I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him?

"And now arise, O Yahweh God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! O Yahweh God, let the priests be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in your goodness!

And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued 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.

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 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.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them."

But Judah said, "The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall."

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

What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

[He is] wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

If {it is a matter of} strength, look, [he is] mighty. But if {it is a matter of} justice, who can summon me?

"Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his.

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

Would he contend with me in [the] greatness of [his] strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me.

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

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}? With them, vigor is destroyed.

His flesh is renewed with [his] youth; he returns to [the] days of his youthful strength.

Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength?

Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength; it goes out to meet [the] battle.

Look, its strength [is] in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach.

"Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}.

From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength."

The God who girded me [with] strength, and made safe my way,

And you girded me [with] strength for the battle; [those] rising against me you made to kneel under me.

O Yahweh, [the] king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help.

Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength, and we sing and praise your power.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.

Yahweh [is] my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.

Yahweh [is] their strength, and he [is] the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.

Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

May Yahweh give strength to his people. May Yahweh bless his people with peace.

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

Be strong and let your heart show strength, all [you] who wait for Yahweh.