H3581: כֹּחַ
kôach · pronounced ko'-akh · “reptile”
Definition
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV translates it as: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Word origin: or (Daniel 11:6) כּוֹחַ; from an unused root meaning to be firm;
Extended definition
1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3581 is translated
- strength ×33
- my ×18
- his ×18
- power ×16
- your ×12
- the strength of ×7
- its ×6
- is strength ×5
- the power of ×3
- their ×2
- monitor lizard ×1
- power of ×1
Bible verses with H3581 (kôach)
Kôach appears in 121 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- Genesis 31:6
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
- Genesis 49:3
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- Exodus 9:16
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
- Exodus 15:6
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
- Leviticus 11:30
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
- Leviticus 26:20
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
- Numbers 14:13
And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
- Numbers 14:17
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
- Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 8:17
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- Deuteronomy 8:18
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:29
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
- Joshua 14:11
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
- Joshua 17:17
And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
- Judges 6:14
And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
- Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
- Judges 16:6
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
- Judges 16:9
Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:15
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
- Judges 16:17
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
- Judges 16:19
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
- Judges 16:30
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
- 1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
All 121 references
- 1 Samuel 28:20
- 1 Samuel 28:22
- 1 Samuel 30:4
- 1 Kings 19:8
- 2 Kings 17:36
- 2 Kings 19:3
- 1 Chronicles 26:8
- 1 Chronicles 29:2
- 1 Chronicles 29:12
- 1 Chronicles 29:14
- 2 Chronicles 2:6
- 2 Chronicles 13:20
- 2 Chronicles 14:11
- 2 Chronicles 20:6
- 2 Chronicles 20:12
- 2 Chronicles 22:9
- 2 Chronicles 25:8
- 2 Chronicles 26:13
- Ezra 2:69
- Ezra 10:13
- Nehemiah 1:10
- Nehemiah 4:10
- Job 3:17
- Job 6:11
- Job 6:12
- Job 6:22
- Job 9:4
- Job 9:19
- Job 23:6
- Job 24:22
- Job 26:2
- Job 26:12
- Job 30:2
- Job 30:18
- Job 31:39
- Job 36:5
- Job 36:19
- Job 36:22
- Job 37:23
- Job 39:11
- Job 39:21
- Job 40:16
- Psalms 22:15
- Psalms 29:4
- Psalms 31:10
- Psalms 33:16
- Psalms 38:10
- Psalms 65:6
- Psalms 71:9
- Psalms 102:23
- Psalms 103:20
- Psalms 111:6
- Psalms 147:5
- Proverbs 5:10
- Proverbs 14:4
- Proverbs 20:29
- Proverbs 24:5
- Proverbs 24:10
- Ecclesiastes 4:1
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
- Isaiah 10:13
- Isaiah 37:3
- Isaiah 40:9
- Isaiah 40:26
- Isaiah 40:29
- Isaiah 40:31
- Isaiah 41:1
- Isaiah 44:12
- Isaiah 49:4
- Isaiah 50:2
- Isaiah 63:1
- Jeremiah 10:12
- Jeremiah 27:5
- Jeremiah 32:17
- Jeremiah 48:45
- Jeremiah 51:15
- Lamentations 1:6
- Lamentations 1:14
- Daniel 1:4
- Daniel 8:6
- Daniel 8:7
- Daniel 8:22
- Daniel 8:24
- Daniel 10:8
- Daniel 10:16
- Daniel 10:17
- Daniel 11:6
- Daniel 11:15
- Daniel 11:25
- Hosea 7:9
- Amos 2:14
- Micah 3:8
- Nahum 1:3
- Nahum 2:1
- Habakkuk 1:11
- Zechariah 4:6