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Lexicon :: Strong's H4581 - māʿôz

Aa
מָעוֹז
Transliteration
māʿôz
Pronunciation
maw-oze'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1578a

Strong’s Definitions

מָעוֹז mâʻôwz, maw-oze'; (also מָעוּז mâʻûwz ); or מָעֹז mâʻôz (also מָעֻז mâʻuz; from H5810; a fortified place; figuratively, a defence:—force, fort(-ress), rock, strength(-en), (× most) strong (hold).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H4581 in the following manner: strength (24x), strong (4x), fortress (3x), hold (2x), forces (1x), fort (1x), rock (1x), strengthen (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H4581 in the following manner: strength (24x), strong (4x), fortress (3x), hold (2x), forces (1x), fort (1x), rock (1x), strengthen (1x).

  1. place or means of safety, protection, refuge, stronghold

    1. place of safety, fastness, harbour, stronghold

    2. refuge (of God) (fig.)

    3. human protection (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָעוֹז mâʻôwz, maw-oze'; (also מָעוּז mâʻûwz ); or מָעֹז mâʻôz (also מָעֻז mâʻuz; from H5810; a fortified place; figuratively, a defence:—force, fort(-ress), rock, strength(-en), (× most) strong (hold).
STRONGS H4581: Abbreviations
† מָעוֺז noun masculineJudges 6:26 place or means of safety, protection (MT suffixes as if from עזז, but probably erroneous, compare BuhlLex 13 Ges§ 85 k); — מ׳ absolute Judges 6:26 +, construct Isaiah 30:2 +; suffix מָעוּזִי 2 Samuel 22:33 (but read הַמְּאַזְּרֵנִי as || Psalm 18:33), מָעוּזִּי Psalm 31:3 +, מָעֻזִּי Isaiah 27:5 +, מָעוּזּוֺ Psalm 52:9 +, מָעֻזֹּה Daniel 11:10, etc. (read probably מְעוֺזִּי, etc.); plural מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:38; Daniel 11:39, suffix מָעֻזְּנֶיהָ Isaiah 23:11, read מָעֻזֶּיהָ (Ges§ 20 o CheHeb. Hpt. and others; strike out dagesh forte in all, see above); —
1. literally place of safety Judges 6:26, hence (with the collateral idea of strength, as if from עזז = fastness Isaiah 23:11, 14 (in Isaiah 23:14 CheHeb. Hpt. proposes מְחוֺזְכֶם your city), Ezekiel 24:25; Ezekiel 30:15; Daniel 11:7, 10, 19, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַמּ׳ Daniel 11:31, מִבְצְרֵי מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:39; הַיָּם מ׳ i.e. harbour Isaiah 23:4, but strike out Ol Du CheHpt.; מֵאוֺיֵב מ׳ Nahum 3:11; compare עָרֵי מ׳ Isaiah 17:9.
2.
a. figurative, of God (י׳) as refuge Nahum 1:7; Psalm 27:1; Psalm 31:5; Psalm 37:39; Psalm 52:9; Isaiah 25:4 (twice in verse); Joel 4:16 [Joel 3:16], עֻזִּי וּמָעֻזִּי וּמְנוּסִי י׳ Jeremiah 16:19, יְשׁוּעוֺת מְשִׁיחוֺ מ׳ Psalm 28:8 (|| עָזֿ); so צוּר מ׳ Isaiah 17:10; Psalm 31:3, אֱלֹהֵי מ׳ Psalm 43:2; also יַחֲזֵק בְּמָעֻזִּי Isaiah 27:5 let him lay hold of my refuge (me as refuge); compare הִיא מָעֻזְּכֶם חֶדְוַת י׳ Nehemiah 8:10, לַתֹּם דֶּרֶךְ י׳ מ׳ Proverbs 10:29.
b. of a heathen god, אֱלוֺהַּ מָעֻזִּים Daniel 11:38 (read מְחֹזִים cities CheIsaiah 23:1, Heb. Hpt.).
3. figurative of human protection, פַּרְעֹה מ׳ Isaiah 30:2, 3 (both || צֵּל מִצְרַיִם); ראֹשִׁי אֶפְרַיִם מ׳ Psalm 60:9 = Psalm 108:9, i.e. my helmet; also (of angel) Daniel 11:1 (|| מַחֲזִיק).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

6:26; 6:26; 6:26

2 Samuel

22:33

Nehemiah

8:10

Psalms

18:33; 27:1; 28:8; 31:3; 31:3; 31:5; 37:39; 43:2; 52:9; 52:9; 60:9; 108:9

Proverbs

10:29

Isaiah

17:9; 17:10; 23:1; 23:4; 23:11; 23:11; 23:14; 23:14; 25:4; 27:5; 27:5; 30:2; 30:2; 30:3

Jeremiah

16:19

Ezekiel

24:25; 30:15

Daniel

11:1; 11:7; 11:10; 11:10; 11:19; 11:31; 11:38; 11:38; 11:39; 11:39

Joel

3:16

Nahum

1:7; 3:11

H4581

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Strong's Number H4581 matches the Hebrew מָעוֹז (māʿôz),
which occurs 37 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 - God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:8 - The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4 - Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:2 - You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:7 - See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:7 - Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:8 - Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29 - The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:10 - For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:14 - Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 - For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:5 - Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3 - And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:25 - And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:15 - I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:1 - And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:10 - And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:31 - And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:38 - But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7 - The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:11 - And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
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