עַז
strong
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.
- 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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5794 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Deuteronomy
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.
At its core, עז (ʻaz) means “strong.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 49:3. With 24 verses in 14 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עזז, מעוז and עז. 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 H5794 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,327
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,327 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 24 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 24 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 42%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 25%
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: Strong 6×, Fierce 3×, Mighty 3×
- American Standard Version: Strong 7×, Fierce 3×, Mighty 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Strong 5×, Powerful 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Strong 9×, Mighty 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5794 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5794 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5794 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5794 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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, fierce
Word origin
adj. strong, mighty, fierce;—ע׳ abs. Nu 13:28 + 2 times, עָז Ju 14:18, עָ֑ז Am 5:9 + 4 times; עַז cstr. Dt 28:50; Dn 8:23; f. עַזָּה Ex 14:21 + 2 times; pl. עַזִּים Ez 7:24 + 3 times; f. עַזּוֹת Pr 18:23; cstr. עַזֵּי Is 56:11;—strong, mighty, wind Ex 14:21 (J); border Nu 21:24 (JE), but read prob. יַעְזֵר (𝔊 Di al.) Yaʾzer was times border; of people Pr 30:25 (fig. of ants), מַיִם עַזִּים Is 43:16 (‖ הַיָּם), Ne 9:11; of love Ct 8:6; = subst. the mighty Am 5:9; Ez 7:24 + Pr 24:5 (of physical force; reading טוֹב מֵעַז or the like 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 KmpKau Wild Toy); formidable, fierce, of lion Ju 14:18, so (= subst.) v 14, of king Is 19:4 (‖ אֲדֹנִים קָשֶׁה), of people Nu 13:28 (JE), Is 25:3 (‖ עָרִיצִים); of enemy 2 S 22:18 = ψ 18:18, so as subst. ψ 59:4; עַז פָּנִים Dt 28:50 fierce of countenance, Dn 8:23, so perhaps = impudent Ec 8:1 (reading עַז for עֹז q.v.); of anger (אַף) Gn 49:7 (poem in J), wrath (חֵמָה) Pr 21:14; הַכְּלָבִים עַזֵּי־נֶפֶשׁ Is 56:11 dogs fierce of appetite (‖ לֹא יָֽדְעוּ שָׂבְעָה); fpl. as adv. accus. יַעֲנֶה עַזּוֹת Pr 18:23 the rich answereth fiercely.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עזז (ʻâzaz) (H5810) — 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.
עוֹז I
- fortitude, strength, majesty. Ber. 6ᵃ התפלין ע׳ הם לישראל T’fillin are a sign of strength to Israel. Ex. R. s. 8 לבושו של הקב"ה ע׳ the garment of the Lord is strength (with ref. to Ps. XCIII, 1). Midr. Till. to Ps. VIII, 3 אין ע׳ אלא תורה וכ׳ ‘strength’ means the Law, as we read (Ps. XXIX, 11) &c.; Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 3 אין עָוִּי וכ׳ ‘my strength’ (Ex. XV, 2) means &c. Ber. 16ᵇ תתכסה בעָזְּךָ clothe thyself in thy majesty; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 93:1
עַז
- strong, firm; vehement, rough; (of colors) bright, intense; (of smell and taste) pungent, acrid. Yoma 67ᵇ (expl. עזאזל) שיהא עז וקשה the mountain must be rough and hard (rocky). Yalk. Ps. 852 (ref. to Ps. XCIX, 4) you will find, מי שהוא עז וכ׳ he who is powerful does not care to abide by the law; Midr. Till. to Ps. l. c. ed. Bub. עוז (corr. acc.). Ab. V, 20 הוי עז כנמר וכ׳ be strong (energetic) like a tiger … to do the will of thy Father in heaven; a. fr.—עז פנים insolent, impudent. Ab. l. c.; a. e.—Fem. עַזָּה. Neg. I, 1, a. fr., v. בַּהֶרֶת. Ker. 6ᵃ כדי שתהא ע׳ that it may have a pungent flavor.—Pl. עַזִּים, עַזִּין; עַזּוֹת. Bets. 25ᵇ מפני מה … מפניּ שהם ע׳ why was the Law given to Israel? Because they are impetuous (and the Law was to discipline them). Ib. שלשה ע׳ הן וכ׳ three (creatures) are of a vehement temper, Israel among the nations, the dog among the beasts &c.; a. fr.—Sabb. 30ᵇ; Ber. 16ᵇ עַזֵּי פנים insolent people, v. עַזּוּת. Taan. 7ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Psalms 99:4
עֹז
- , v. עוֹז
עֵז
- c. (b. h.; goat. Bets. 25ᵇ אף עז וכ׳ (among the aggressive creatures, v. עַז) also the goat among the small cattle. Bekh. III, 1 עז בת שנתה וכ׳ that born of a goat in her first year belongs surely to the priest (as first-born); a. fr.—Pl. עִזִּים. Ḥull. 113ᵇ; a. fr.—V. עִיזָּה.
עֵז ²
- ch., v. עִיז
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 19 distinct written forms H5794 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5794, 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
- מעוז mâʻôwz H4581 refuge
- עז ʻêz H5795 female goat
- עז ʻôz H5797 strength
- עזוז ʻĕzûwz H5807 might
- עזוז ʻizzûwz H5808 mighty
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עזז ʻÂzâz H5811 Azaz
- עזזיהו ʻĂzazyâhûw H5812 Azaziah
- עזי ʻUzzîy H5813 Uzzi
- עזבוק ʻAzbûwq H5802 Azbuk
- עזגד ʻAzgâd H5803 Azgad
- עזה ʻAzzâh H5804 Gaza
- עזמות ʻAzmâveth H5820 Azmaveth
- עזן ʻAzzân H5821 Azzan
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 8 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 21 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 24 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
- Genesis 49:3
- Exodus 14:21
- Numbers 13:28
- Deuteronomy 28:50
- Judges 14:14
- 2 Samuel 22:18
- Psalms 59:3
- Proverbs 21:14
- Song of Solomon 8:6
- Isaiah 19:4
- Ezekiel 7:24
- Daniel 8:23
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.
