Atsum עָצוּם

Atsum (Hebrew עָצוּם, Strong's H6099) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “mighty”. It occurs 31 times in 31 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

Translated as

Verses

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

Genesis

• Genesis 18:18
  Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Exodus

• Exodus 1:9
  And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

Numbers

• Numbers 14:12
  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
• Numbers 22:6
  Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
• Numbers 32:1
  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 4:38
  To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
• Deuteronomy 7:1
  When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
• Deuteronomy 9:1
  Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
• Deuteronomy 9:14
  Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
• Deuteronomy 11:23
  Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
• Deuteronomy 26:5
  And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Joshua

• Joshua 23:9
  For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

Psalms

• Psalm 10:10
  He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
• Psalm 35:18
  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
• Psalm 135:10
  Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

Proverbs

• Proverbs 7:26
  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
• Proverbs 18:18
  The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.
• Proverbs 30:26
  The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

Isaiah

• Isaiah 8:7
  Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
• Isaiah 53:12
  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
• Isaiah 60:22
  A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

Daniel

• Daniel 8:24
  And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.
• Daniel 11:25
  And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.

Joel

• Joel 1:6
  For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
• Joel 2:2
  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
• Joel 2:5
  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
• Joel 2:11
  And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

Amos

• Amos 5:12
  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Micah

• Micah 4:3
  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
• Micah 4:7
  And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 8:22
  Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).