חֵ֫סֶן
power
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Particle, Definite Article 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2632 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 2:37 חִסְנָ֛/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
- Daniel 4:30 חִסְנִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חסן (chêçen) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “power.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Daniel dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. It first appears in Daniel 2:37. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2632 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Power 2×
- American Standard Version: Might of my power 1×, Power 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Power 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Power 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2632 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2632 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2632 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2632 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- power, strength, power (of the king), (royal) power
Word origin
[ חֵ֫סֶן ] n.m. (royal) power
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חסן (chăçan) (H2631) — to take possession.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲסַן I
- 1. to be strong. [Targ. Is. LXIII, 15, v. Ithpa.]—V. חוּסְנָא
- 2. (cmp. חזק) to take possession (mostly in Af.).
- to strengthen. Targ. Is. XXXV, 3 (h. text אמץ).
- 1. same. Targ. O. Gen. XLIX, 24. Targ. Am. II, 14 (h. text same. Targ. O. Gen. XLIX, 24. Targ. Am. II, 14 (h. text אמץ); a. e.
- 2. to take possession (for one’s self and heirs). Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 29. Targ. O. Lev. XXV, 46 (Y. תִחְסְ׳, Pe.); a. fr.—B. Bath. 148ᵇ bot. אף יַחְסִין וירת וכ׳ also if he uses the expression yaḥsin, he shall take possession, or yereth, he shall inherit, referring to an heir.
- 3. to give possession, to bequeathe. Targ. O. Deut. XXXII, 8 באחסנא (Y. באַחְסָנוּת verbal noun, constr.). Targ. Y. I Num. XI, 26.
- 4. to hoard up (v. חִסְנָא). Targ. Am. II, 6; VIII, 6 (h. text נעלים, v. נַעַל).
- 5. (cmp. חָזַק Hif.) to hold, have room for. Y. Snh. X, 29ᵃ top (ref. to II Kings VI, 1) לא א׳ אוכלוסייא וכ׳ (not אסחין) it did no longer hold the masses &c. e.g. 2 Kings 6:1
- 1. to strengthen one’s self, to betake one’s self; to control one’s own emotions. Targ. Jer. III, 8. Targ. Is. LXIII, 15 ed. Lag. (oth. ed. יֶחְסְ׳).—Targ. O. Gen. XLIII, 31 (v. זְרַז). Targ. I Sam. XIII, 12; a. fr. (h. text התאפק).
- 2. to be put in possession. Targ. Job VII, 3 (h. text הָנְחַלְתִּי).
חֲסַן II
- (= חֲסַל I), Af. אַחְסֵין to wean. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 8.
- 1. to be weaned. Ib.
- 2. to be fully compensated. Targ. Prov. XI, 31 (h. text יְשֻׁלָּם).
חֹסֶן
- , v. חוֹסֶן
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2632 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חִסְנִ֖/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:30 | 1 |
| חִסְנָ֛/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:37 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
