אַמִּיץ
strong
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct 3 times (50%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H533 appears — 6 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 28:2 וְ/אַמִּץ֙ conj + Adjective Adjective ms Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 40:26 וְ/אַמִּ֣יץ conj + Adjective Adjective ms cs Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Amos 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew adjective אמיץ centers on the idea of “strong.” Debuting at 2 Samuel 15:12, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 6 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Job dominates its distribution — 2 of 6 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אמץ, אמץ and אמץ. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H533 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 33%
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: He is strong 1×, He that is courageous 1×, Lo he is strong 1×
- American Standard Version: He is strong 1×, He that is courageous 1×, Lo 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mighty 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Became strong 1×, Bravest 1×, He is mighty 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H533 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H533 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H533 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H533 across 6 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.
- strong, mighty
Word origin
(אַמִּץ) adj. mighty—א׳ abs. 2 S 15:12 + 2 times; cstr. Jb 9:4 + 2 times—mighty, of Absalom’s conspiracy 2 S 15:12; elsewhere of persons; as subst., instrum. of י׳ (i.e. Assyrians) Is 28:2 (‖ חָזָק); א׳ לִבּוֹ = valiant, conqueror Am 2:16; of י׳, חֲכַם לֵבָב וְא׳ כֹּחַ Jb 9:4; cf. כֹּחַ א׳ v 19 (v. Di & RV), א׳ כֹּחַ Is 40:26 (‖ רֹב אוֹנִים). Is 40:26 read probably אֹמֶץ (𝔊).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אמץ (ʼâmats) (H553) — to be strong.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H533 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/אַמִּ֣יץ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 40:26 | 2 |
| אַמִּ֔ץ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 15:12 | 1 |
| אַמִּ֣יץ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 9:19 | 1 |
| וְ/אַמִּ֥יץ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Amos 2:16 | 1 |
| וְ/אַמִּץ֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 28:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H533, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אמץ ʼâmôts H554 strong
- אמץ ʼômets H555 strength
- אמצה ʼamtsâh H556 strength
- מאמץ maʼămâts H3981 strength
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 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.
