עִזְקָה
signet ring
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5824 appears — 1 distinct verse 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 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 noun עזקא centers on the idea of “signet ring.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Daniel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 6:17. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עזק and עזקה. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5824 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 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 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Own signet 1×, Signet 1×
- American Standard Version: Own signet 1×, Signet 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Own signet ring 1×, Rings 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Own signet ring 1×, Signet rings of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5824 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5824 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5824 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5824 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.
- signet-ring
Word origin
[ עִזְקָה ] n.f. signet-ring;—sf. Dn 6:18
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עזק (ʻâzaq) (H5823) — to dig about.
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.
עִזְקָא
- (preced. wds.) fetter, handcuff.—Pl. עִזְקַיָּא, עִי׳. Targ. Jer. XL, 1 (h. text אזקים).
עִזְקָא ²
- (preced.; cmp. חִיזְקָא) clasp, ring, signet-ring. Targ. Ex. XXVIII, 11 (O. ed. Vien. עִזְקָן pl.). Targ. O. Gen. XXXVIII, 18; a. fr.—Gitt. 68ᵃ ע׳ דחקיק עלה שם a ring on which the divine name was engraven; Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXVIII, 45. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ top חד ע׳ צר a ring on which was a figure (Bub. ib. 43ᵃ טבעת ועליה צורת דרקין); a. fr.—[Lev. R. s. 13 כעזקתא סומקתא, read: כעַרְקְתָא.]—Trnsf. (v. טַבַּעַת) anus, end of the rectum. Koh. R., to VII, 19; Yalk. ib. 976.—Pl. עִזְקיָּא, עִיזְ׳; עִזְקָתָא, עִזְקָן; עִי׳. Targ. Ex. XXV, 12; 14; a. fr.—Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵇ bot. (expl. וטבעת Num. XXXI, 50). e.g. Numbers 31:50
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 H5824 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/עִזְקְתֵ֗/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 6:17 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/עִזְקָת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 6:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5824, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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