On אוֹן

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On (Hebrew אוֹן, Strong's H202) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “strength”. It occurs 13 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	strength (7), might (2), goods (1), force (1), substance (1)
BSB	his strength (2), power (2), my strength (1), his vigorous (1), his wealth (1), virility (1), their vigor (1), his vigor (1), wealth (1)

Every verse with On, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

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:Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in 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; the right of the firstborn is his.Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
Job 18:12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
Job 40:16
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Psalm 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
Psalm 105:36
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

Proverbs 11:7
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

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 his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:29
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

Hosea 12:3
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled 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.And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).