H6099 עָצוּם (ʻâtsûwm) aw-tsoom'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

mighty

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: or עָצֻם; passive participle of H6105 (עָצַם);

KJV Usage: [phrase] feeble, great, mighty, must, strong.

TWOT Reference: 1673d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) mighty, vast, numerous

1a) mighty, strong (in number)

1b) numerous, countless

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G926 G1413 G1415 G2478 G3173 G4128

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עָצוּם (a.tsum) — mighty. 1) mighty, vast, numerous 1a) mighty, strong (in number) 1b) numerous, countless

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עָצוּם (H6099)

adj · עצם

Quantity | Strong | ≈ גָּדֹול · רַב

numerous = state in which humans or animals are numerous and therefore potentially powerful

GEN 18:18 · EXO 1:9 · NUM 14:12 · NUM 22:6 · NUM 32:1 · DEU 4:38 · DEU 7:1 · DEU 9:1 · DEU 9:14 · DEU 11:23 · DEU 26:5 · JOS 23:9 · PSA 35:18 · PRO 7:26 · ISA 8:7 · ISA 60:22 · DAN 11:25 · JOL 1:6 · JOL 2:2 · JOL 2:5 · JOL 2:11 · MIC 4:3 · MIC 4:7 · ZEC 8:22

Frequency | ≈ רַב

numerous = state in which events happen with a large frequency

AMO 5:12

Strong | ≈ גָּדֹול · רַב

strong, mighty, powerful = state in which humans or deities have physical, political, or military strength

PSA 10:10 · PSA 135:10 · PRO 18:18 · PRO 30:26 · ISA 53:12 · DAN 8:24

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָצוּם 31 adj. mighty, numerous base

Bible Occurrences (31)

18:18

1:9

14:12 22:6 32:1

4:38 7:1 9:1 9:14 11:23 26:5

23:9

10:10 35:18 135:10

7:26 18:18 30:26

8:7 53:12 60:22

8:24 11:25

1:6 2:2 2:5 2:11

5:12

4:3 4:7

8:22

Genesis 18:18

Abraham will surely become... a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth {will} be blessed.

Exodus 1:9

Look, he said to his people, the Israelites...... [have become] too numerous and too powerful for us.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them — and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.

Numbers 22:6

So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.

Numbers 32:1

Now the Reubenites... and Gadites..., who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

Deuteronomy 4:38

to drive out before you... nations greater and mightier [than you], and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering... to possess, and He drives out before you many nations— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.