Word study
Vigor
7 Hebrew words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “vigor”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “vigor” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- כֶּלַח kelachfirm or rugged strengthtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H3624Noun · Translated: full vigor 1, since their vigor 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Job 5:26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Job 30:2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- אוֹן ônvigour, wealthtranslated this way 2 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s H202Noun · Translated: strength 3, wealth 2, power 2, vigor 2Full study and all 12 verses →
Psalm 105:36 Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
Hosea 12:3 In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
- עָלוּם âlûmadolescence, vigortranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s H5934Noun · Translated: youth 3, youthful vigor 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
- עֶצֶם etsembone, substance, selftranslated this way 1 time of its 115 uses · Strong’s H6106Noun · Translated: bones 83, very 7, bone 6, blood 6Full study and all 101 verses →
Job 21:23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
- הוֹד hôdsplendour, majesty, vigourtranslated this way 1 time of its 24 uses · Strong’s H1935Noun · Translated: splendor 9, majesty 3, glory 2Full study and all 24 verses →
Proverbs 5:9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- דֶּרֶךְ derekway, road, distance, journey, mannertranslated this way 1 time of its 653 uses · Strong’s H1870Noun · Translated: way 204, ways 166, road 54, journey 35Full study and all 595 verses →
Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- שַׁחֲרוּת shachărûthblacknesstranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H7839Noun · Translated: vigor 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Ecclesiastes 11:10 So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.