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strengthen

Meaning of “strengthen”

To make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.

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32 occurrences32 verses16 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 3:28

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Psalms 89:21
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
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1611 witness · Psalms 89:21 · retained source text

With whome my hand shall bee established: mine arme also shall strengthen him.

Psalms 119:28
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
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1611 witness · Psalms 119:28 · retained source text

My soule melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word.

1611 marginal noteHeb. droppeth.

Isaiah 22:21
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 22:21 · retained source text

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I wil commit thy gouernment into his hand, and he shalbe a father to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and to the house of Iudah.

Isaiah 30:2
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:2 · retained source text

That walke to goe downe into Egypt, (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen themselues in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 33:23 · retained source text

Thy tacklings are loosed: they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the saile: then is the praye of a great spoile diuided, the lame take the praye.

1611 marginal noteOr, they haue forsaken thy tacklings.

Isaiah 35:3
strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 35:3 · retained source text

¶ Strengthen yee the weake hands, and confirme the feeble knees.

1611 marginal noteHebr. 12.12.

Isaiah 41:10
¶ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 41:10 · retained source text

¶ Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismaied, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea I will helpe thee, yea I will vphold thee with the right hand of my righteousnesse.

Isaiah 54:2
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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1611 witness · Isaiah 54:2 · retained source text

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtaines of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:14 · retained source text

I haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walke in lies: they strengthen also the hands of euill doers, that none doeth returne from his wickednesse: they are all of them vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

1611 marginal noteOr, filthinesse.

1611 marginal noteIsa. 1.9.

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