חׇזְקָה chozqâh — vehemence (usually in a bad sense)
Translated in the KJV as force, mightily, repair, sharply.
feminine of H2392; vehemence (usually in a bad sense).
chozqâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לְחָזְקָֽה 2Kgs 12:13 Infinitive construct
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›