אוֹן on

Hebrew word for “strength” · Strong’s H202 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) vigour, generative power; 2) wealth; 3) physical strength (of men and behemoth)

How it is translated

Glosses given for on in context, with how often each is used:

• manly vigor 4
• wealth 2
• strengths 2
• vigor 1
• trouble 1
• power 1
• manly vigors 1
• powers 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 18 (2), Isaiah 40 (2), Hosea 12 (2), Genesis 49 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), Job 20 (1), Job 40 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Proverbs 11 (1)

Forms

• אונים 4
• אנו 2
• אונו 2
• אוני 1
• ואנו 1
• אונם 1
• ובאונו 1
• און 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with on more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֵאשִׁית reshit “first” 4
• בְּכוֹר bekhor “firstborn” 4
• כֹּחַ koach “strength” 4
• בֶּטֶן beten “belly” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 2
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 2

Key verses

The verses using on that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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:
• Deuteronomy 21:17 — But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength;…
• Job 18:7 — The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
• Job 18:12 — His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
• Job 20:10 — His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
• Psalms 78:51 — And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
• Psalms 105:36 — He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
• Proverbs 11:7 — When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
• Isaiah 40:26 — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of…
• Isaiah 40:29 — He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
• Hosea 12:3 — He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
• Hosea 12:8 — And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.