19 occurrences

'Stronger' in the Bible

The Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb;And two peoples will be separated from your body;And one people shall be stronger than the other;And the older shall serve the younger.”

Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;

but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,“What is sweeter than honey?And what is stronger than a lion?”And he said to them,“If you had not plowed with my heifer,You would not have found out my riddle.”

“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life,And in their death they were not parted;They were swifter than eagles,They were stronger than lions.

Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David grew steadily stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker continually.

Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it’; and so encourage him.”

However, he would not listen to her; since he was stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.

Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we; but rather let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

And He caused His people to be very fruitful,And made them stronger than their adversaries.

Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is.

And now do not carry on as scoffers,Or your fetters will be made stronger;For I have heard from the Lord God of hostsOf decisive destruction on all the earth.

For the Lord has ransomed JacobAnd redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

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Root Form
Definition
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גּבר 
Gabar 
Usage: 25

חזק 
Chazaq 
Usage: 290

חזק 
Chazaq 
Usage: 57

חזק 
Chazeq 
Usage: 1

עז 
`az 
Usage: 22

עצם 
`atsam 
Usage: 20

קשׁר 
Qashar 
Usage: 44

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