עָצוּם

ʻâtsûwm · Hebrew · Strong's H6099 · 31 occurrences

The KJV renders 23 different Hebrew and Greek words as “great”

What it means

powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous

or עָצֻם; passive participle of H6105 (עָצַם);

How the KJV renders it

great, mighty, must, strong

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“great”

also renders hikanós (G2425), mégas (G3173), pleíōn (G4119), lían (G3029), ʼîysh (H376), ʼatstsîyl (H679), baʻal (H1167), bâqâr (H1241), gᵉlâl (H1560), chûwl (H2342), chalchâlâh (H2479), kâbad (H3513), kâbêd (H3515), lâbîyʼ (H3833), mᵉʼôd (H3966), marbeh (H4766), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), rab (H7229), rabrab (H7260), racham (H7356), saggîyʼ (H7689)

“strong”

also renders enérgeia (G1753), mégas (G3173), stereós (G4731), dynatós (G1415), ʼabbîyr (H47), ʼêythân (H386), ʼêl (H410), bâtsar (H1219), gibbôwr (H1368), gerem (H1634), châzâq (H2389), chayil (H2428), chăçîyn (H2626), kabbîyr (H3524), mibtsâr (H4013), mâtsôwr (H4692), ʻaz (H5794), ʻôz (H5797), ʻizzûwz (H5808), ʻatstsumâh (H6110), ʻârîyts (H6184), taqqîyph (H8624)

“mighty”

also renders dynástēs (G1413), krataiós (G2900), mégas (G3173), ischyrós (G2478), dynatós (G1415), bíaios (G972), ʼâbîyr (H46), ʼabbîyr (H47), ʼaddîyr (H117), ʼûwl (H193), ʼayil (H352), ʼêythân (H386), ʼâphîyq (H650), gibbâr (H1401), gâdôwl (H1419), châzâq (H2389), kabbîyr (H3524), ʻaz (H5794), ʻârîyts (H6184), rab (H7227), taqqîyph (H8624)

“must”

also renders deî (G1163)

Answers that weigh this word

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Where it appears

31 occurrences in the Hebrew text.

Amos 5:12 · HC/Aampa

For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Daniel 8:24 · HAampa

His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Daniel 11:25 · HC/Aamsa

“He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.

Deuteronomy 4:38 · HC/Aampa

to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 7:1 · HC/Aampa

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

Deuteronomy 9:1 · HC/Aampa

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Deuteronomy 9:14 HAamsaDeuteronomy 11:23 HC/AampaDeuteronomy 26:5 HAamsaExodus 1:9 HC/AamsaGenesis 18:18 HC/AamsaIsaiah 8:7 HTd/AampaIsaiah 53:12 HAampaIsaiah 60:22 HAamsaJoel 1:6 HAamsaJoel 2:2 HC/AamsaJoel 2:5 HAamsaJoel 2:11 HAamsaJoshua 23:9 HC/AampaMicah 4:3 HAampaMicah 4:7 HAamsaNumbers 14:12 HC/AamsaNumbers 22:6 HAamsaNumbers 32:1 HAamsaProverbs 7:26 HC/AampaProverbs 18:18 HAampaProverbs 30:26 HAamsaPsalm 10:10 HR/Aampc/Sp3msPsalm 35:18 HAamsaPsalm 135:10 HAampaZechariah 8:22 HAampa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.