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  • From: "Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] `atsuwm (STRONG, MIGHTY) was `ZZ
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:29:50 -0500

Isaac Fried wrote: No Hebrew root can mean 'might' or 'strength', but 'up,
on' is good.

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THE COUNTER ARGUMENT

Besides `zz there are additional Hebrew words for strong, strength, might
etc. for example:

(6099) `atsuwm; passive participle of '`atsam' (BTW initial letter is
`ayn)
(6105); powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous:--+ great,
mighty, must, strong.
(6106) `etsem from '`atsam' (6105); a bone (as strong); by extension, the
body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame:--body, bone, X
life, (self-)same, strength, X very.

See BDB p.782 # 6099
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Here, the meaning of 'STRONG' is found in the following verses : Jos 23:9,
Prov 7:26, Isa 8:7, Isa 53:12, Isa 60:22, Joel 1:6, Joel 2:2, Joel 2:5, Joel
2:11, Micah 4:3, Micah 4:7, Zech 8:22


EXAMPLES:

Jos 23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and
STRONG: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to stand1 before you unto
this day.

Prov 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many STRONG [men] have
been slain by her.

Isa 8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of
the river, STRONG and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory:
and he shall come up1 over all his channels, and go over1 all his banks:

Isa 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a STRONG
nation: the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Joel 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, STRONG and without number,
whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great
lion.

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon themountains: a great people and a STRONG; there
hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to
the years of many generations.

Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire thatdevoureth the stubble, as a STRONG
people set in battle array.

Joel 2:2 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp
[is] very great: for [he is] STRONG that executeth his word: for the day of
the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide55 it?

Micah 4:3, And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke STRONG nations
afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.

Micah 4:7, And I will make1 her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast
far off a STRONG nation: and the LORD shallreign1 over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.

Zech 8:22 Yea, many people and STRONG nations shall come1 to seek5 the LORD
of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.


More examples:-)

mightier
Exo 1:9, Num 14:12, Deu 4:38, Deu 7:1, Deu 9:1, Deu 9:14, Deu 11:23

mighty
Gen 18:18, Num 22:6, Deu 26:5, Psa 135:10, Prov 18:18, Dan 8:24, Dan 11:25,
Amos 5:12



Ishinan Ishibashi





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