38 occurrences in 13 translations

'Strong' in the Bible

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeopleSuccess And Hard WorkNervousness

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodSpirit, Nature OfGod's HandGod Lifting PeopleGod's Hands On PeopleBitternessResolving Conflict

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryCessationLimitations Of StrengthGod Opposes The ProudHouses Under AttackPeople Possessing Other ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThings Stopping

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDLukewarmnessThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsPeople OvercomingThe Fact Of That DayBattle

Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinNot Turning AsideKeeping Oneself AlivePeople Encouraging Others

He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

Verse ConceptsFertile LandWater For PlantsBearing Fruit

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof.

Verse ConceptsRootsUnfruitfulnessMany EnemiesPlants Growing UpEasy For People

And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives:

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

He prowled around among the lions, became a strong, young lion, and learned to become a hunter-prowler to eat human beings.

Verse ConceptsHuntingAnimals Eating People

They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCagesMan Trapping

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

Verse ConceptsHeightSceptreThings On High

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Verse ConceptsRootsWindDestruction Of PlantsOut Of The EastBurning PlantsPutting Things Down

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Verse ConceptsSceptreBurning Plants

As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I will rule over you with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

I will bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you were scattered, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGathering IsraelStrength Of God

Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

Verse ConceptsBeing StrongEnduringCourage And Strength

She lusted after their genitals -- as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

Verse ConceptsSemenMale GenitalsYoung Loverssexmanhoodlovers

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PillarsKilled With The SwordUsing RoadsFeet Of CreaturesThings FallingTrampling Places

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

Verse ConceptsMarinersFearing Other People

I'll pour out my anger on Sin, Egypt's strong fortress, and I'll eliminate the gangs in Thebes.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With The Nations

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingBones BrokenNo HealingHealing A Broken Heart

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGod OpposingThings Falling

"I'm coming to attack Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I'm going to break both of his arms, the strong one and the wounded one. That will make him drop his sword. I'm going to scatter Egypt throughout the surrounding nations and disperse them throughout the world.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGod Strengthening PeopleGod's Sword

And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod Strengthening PeopleThings FallingGod's Sword

I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

Verse ConceptsRulersGroups Sent Away

"Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, '[With] a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you [are] like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy.

Verse ConceptsWhalesCosmic CreaturesLike Creatures

I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The Dead

This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofCavesPlaguesPeople In CavesAnimals Eating PeopleKilled With The SwordWild Animals DevouringCaves As Places Of Refuge

You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdiseasesInjuryOppression, Nature OfUnkindnessWeakness, PhysicalBones BrokenWeak AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleReinstating PeopleOppressorsJoining Flesh And BonesLording ItLost PeopleNo HealingWeakness

Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions, they [will] ask you, 'To loot loot are you coming? To plunder plunder [have] you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amounts of loot?" '

Verse ConceptsPlunderingTradeAmericaAmerica In Biblical Prophecy

And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:

Verse ConceptsGog and MagogOut Of The North

And [the] face of a human {was toward} the palm tree image {on the one side}, and [the] face of a fierce strong lion {faced} the palm tree image {on the other side}; {this work was executed} for the entire temple {all the way around}.

Verse ConceptsCreatures Like LionsLike Men

Bible Theasaurus

Active (28 instances)
Acute (5 instances)
Energetic (1 instance)
Forcible (3 instances)
Impregnable (2 instances)
Intense (52 instances)
Mighty (576 instances)
Secure (159 instances)
Solid (36 instances)
Stiff (24 instances)
Strong (864 instances)
Substantial (1 instance)
Unassailable (2 instances)

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