# כֹּחַ (kocha)

Israeli respelling: ko-cha. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3581. 121 Old Testament occurrences.

vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard

King James renderings: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kocha-h3581

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/12) — When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- [Genesis 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/6) — And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
- [Genesis 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Exodus 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/9/16) — And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the ea…
- [Exodus 15:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/6) — Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- [Exodus 32:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/32/11) — And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of th…
- [Leviticus 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/30) — And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
- [Leviticus 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/20) — And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit…
- [Numbers 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/13) — And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
- [Numbers 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/17) — And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 4:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/37) — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of…
- [Deuteronomy 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/17) — And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- [Deuteronomy 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/18) — But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sw…
- [Deuteronomy 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/29) — Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
- [Joshua 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/11) — As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both t…
- [Joshua 17:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/17) — And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou sha…
- [Judges 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/14) — And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent t…
- [Judges 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/5) — And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what mea…
- [Judges 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/6) — And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
- [Judges 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/9) — Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brak…
- [Judges 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/15) — And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast no…
- [Judges 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/17) — That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my…
- [Judges 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/19) — And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began…
- [Judges 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/30) — And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all…
- [1 Samuel 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/9) — He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
- [1 Samuel 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/20) — Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; f…
- [1 Samuel 28:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/22) — Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that…
- [1 Samuel 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/4) — Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
- [1 Kings 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/8) — And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- [2 Kings 17:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/36) — But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye wor…
- [2 Kings 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/3) — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the b…
- [1 Chronicles 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/26/8) — All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two o…
- [1 Chronicles 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/2) — Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver,…
- [1 Chronicles 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/12) — Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make grea…
- [1 Chronicles 29:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/14) — But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thin…
- [2 Chronicles 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/6) — But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a…
- [2 Chronicles 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/20) — Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
- [2 Chronicles 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/11) — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: h…
- [2 Chronicles 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/6) — And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine han…
- [2 Chronicles 20:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/12) — O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: bu…
- [2 Chronicles 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/9) — And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried…
- [2 Chronicles 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/8) — But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast do…
- [2 Chronicles 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/13) — And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the…
- [Ezra 2:69](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/69) — They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, a…
- [Ezra 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/13) — But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for…
- [Nehemiah 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/10) — Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
- [Nehemiah 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/10) — And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
- [Job 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/17) — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- [Job 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/11) — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- [Job 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/12) — Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
- [Job 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/22) — Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
- [Job 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/4) — He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- [Job 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/19) — If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- [Job 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/6) — Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
- [Job 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/22) — He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
- [Job 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/2) — How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- [Job 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/12) — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
- [Job 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/2) — Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- [Job 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/18) — By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
- [Job 31:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/39) — If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
- [Job 36:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/5) — Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
- [Job 36:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/19) — Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- [Job 36:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/22) — Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
- [Job 37:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/23) — Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
- [Job 39:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/11) — Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
- [Job 39:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/21) — He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
- [Job 40:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/16) — Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
- [Psalms 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/15) — My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- [Psalms 29:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/29/4) — The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
- [Psalms 31:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/10) — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- [Psalms 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/16) — There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
- [Psalms 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/10) — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
- [Psalms 65:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/6) — Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
- [Psalms 71:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/9) — Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
- [Psalms 102:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/23) — He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
- [Psalms 103:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/103/20) — Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
- [Psalms 111:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/6) — He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
- [Psalms 147:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/5) — Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
- [Proverbs 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/10) — Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
- [Proverbs 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/4) — Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- [Proverbs 20:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/29) — The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
- [Proverbs 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/5) — A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
- [Proverbs 24:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/10) — If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- [Ecclesiastes 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/1) — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/10) — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither…
- [Isaiah 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/13) — For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, a…
- [Isaiah 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/3) — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to th…
- [Isaiah 40:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/9) — O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with str…
- [Isaiah 40:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 b…
- [Isaiah 40:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/29) — He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
- [Isaiah 40:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/31) — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; an…
- [Isaiah 41:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/1) — Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near toget…
- [Isaiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/12) — The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he i…
- [Isaiah 49:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/4) — Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my wor…
- [Isaiah 50:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/2) — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or h…
- [Isaiah 63:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/1) — Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his…
- [Jeremiah 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/12) — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
- [Jeremiah 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/5) — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto…
- [Jeremiah 32:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/17) — Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for th…
- [Jeremiah 48:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/45) — They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the mid…
- [Jeremiah 51:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/15) — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
- [Lamentations 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/6) — And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without…
- [Lamentations 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/14) — The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD…
- [Daniel 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/4) — Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and suc…
- [Daniel 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/6) — And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
- [Daniel 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/7) — And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was…
- [Daniel 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/22) — Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
- [Daniel 8:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 destr…
- [Daniel 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/8) — Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corrup…
- [Daniel 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/16) — And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood be…
- [Daniel 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/17) — For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is the…
- [Daniel 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/6) — And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to ma…
- [Daniel 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/15) — So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, n…
- [Daniel 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Hosea 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/9) — Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
- [Amos 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/14) — Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
- [Micah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/8) — But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Isra…
- [Nahum 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/3) — The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the sto…
- [Nahum 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/1) — He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
- [Habakkuk 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/11) — Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
- [Zechariah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/4/6) — Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spi…