Hebrew Terms - Part 1C
We continue with Part 1C of our study on Power, concluding the list of Hebrew terms used to express the concept. Be sure to see the other parts of this study as well. The following links will take you there.
Part 1A - Hebrew Terms
Part 1B - Hebrew Terms
Part 1C - Hebrew Terms
Part 2A - Greek Terms
Part 2B - Greek Terms
H6184 – arlyts – used 20 times
6184. XyîrDo {ariyts, aw-reets´; from 6206; fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical:—mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent.
6206. XArDo {arats, aw-rats´; a primitive root; to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass:—be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.
Job 27:13: This is the portion of a wicked man with YAHWEH, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of The Almighty.
Psalms 86:14: Oh YAHWEH, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set You before them.
Isaiah 25:3: Therefore shall the strong people glorify You, the city of the terrible nations shall fear You.
Isaiah 25:4: For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 25:5: You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 29:20: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Isaiah 49:25: But thus says YAHWEH, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.
Jeremiah 15:21: And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
Jeremiah 20:11: But YAHWEH is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Ezekiel 28:7: Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
H7980 – shalat – used 8 times
7980. fAlÎv shalat, shaw-lat´; a primitive root; to dominate, i.e. govern; by implication, to permit:—(bear, have) rule, have dominion, give (have) power.
Nehemiah 5:15: But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of Yahweh.
Psalms 119:133: Order my steps in Your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19: And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:19: Every man also to whom YAHWEH has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of YAHWEH.
Ecclesiastes 8:9: All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.
H8633 – toqeph – used 3 times
8633. P®q;Ot toqeph, to´-kef; from 8630; might or (figuratively) positiveness:—authority, power, strength.
8630. PAq;Dt taqaph, taw-kaf´; a primitive root; to overpower:—prevail (against).
Esther 9:29: Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
Esther 10:2: And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Daniel 11:17: He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
H8592 –ta`atsumah – used only once
8591. oAo;Dt ta{a{, taw-ah´; a primitive root; to cheat; by analogy, to maltreat:—deceive, misuse.
Psalms 68:35: Oh YAHWEH, You are terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is He that gives strength and power unto His people. Blessed be YAHWEH. (To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.)