אָמֹץ
strong
‘strong’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H554 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.
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 6:3 אֲמֻצִּֽים adj Adjective mp in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
- Zechariah 6:7 וְ/הָ/אֲמֻצִּ֣ים conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.
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.
אמץ (ʼâmôts) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “strong.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Zechariah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Debuting at Zechariah 6:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H554 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
- Zechariah 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 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: Bay 2×
- American Standard Version: Strong 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: All of them strong 1×, Strong 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Strong 1×, Strong ones 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H554 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H554 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H554 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H554 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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
- bay, dappled, piebald (of colour)
Word origin
n.pr.m. father of Isaiah ( = following) Is 1:1; 2:1; 13:1; 20:2; 37:2, 21; 38:1 = 2 K 19:2, 20; 20:1; 2 Ch 26:22; 32:20, 32.
— 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.
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.
אָמַץ
- to press, harden. אוֹמְצֵי הלב hard-hearted. Tosef. Sot. XIV, 7; v. infra.
- 1. to make strong, to strengthen. Y. Taan. III, 66ᵈ all shall be מְאַמְּצִין כחך strengthening thy power (assist thee). Snh. 44ᵇ מאמץ עצמו וכ׳ who concentrates his energies for prayer.
- 2. to press, close; to make impervious. Sot. 47ᵇ מאַמְּצֵי הלב those who close their hearts, the hard-hearted; v. supra. [Sabb. XXIII, 5 מאמצין את המת Y. ed. (Mish. מעמ׳, Bab. ib. 151ᵇ מעצמין, Ms. M. מעמ׳) to close the eyes of a deceased person. Tosef. ib. XVII (XVIII), 19 לעַמֵּץ ed. Zuck. (Var. לאַמֵּץ). Sabb. 77ᵇ מעמצין או מאמצין וכ׳ is m’amm’tsin (l. c.) spelt with ע or with א? Answer by ref. to עוצם Is. XXXIII, 15(!).] V. אוּמְצָא. e.g. Isaiah 33:15
- to be closed. Tosef. l. c. מִתְאַמְּצוֹת מאיליהן they will be closed of themselves.
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 H554 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲמֻצִּֽים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 6:3 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/אֲמֻצִּ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 6:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H554, 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
- אמיץ ʼammîyts H533 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 2 verses that also exist 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.
