'Strength' in the Bible

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt."

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.

As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

"So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver."

Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

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 have not told me where your great strength lies."

He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

"The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of the words of Samuel. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."

For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

You say (but they are but vain words), 'There is counsel and strength for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!

All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all.

"Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

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

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don't let man prevail against you."

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

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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

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

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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

The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

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

"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace. A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.

Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.