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זְרוֹעַ

ze.ro.a

arm

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Strong’s H2220Noun, feminine91 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

arm30

an arm15

arms13

the arm of11

the arms of7

strength5

own arm2

the forces of2

In the text

Deuteronomy 4:34וּבִזְרוֹעַ
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
Job 22:8זְרוֹעַ
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
Psalm 18:34זְרוֹעֹתָי
He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Isaiah 17:5וּזְרֹעוֹ
as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
Ezekiel 4:7וּזְרֹעֲךָ
You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
Daniel 10:6וּזְרֹעֹתָיו
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

זְרוֹעַ, זְרֹעַ n.f. and (rare) m. arm, shoulder, strength

1. arm

2. arm, as symbol of strength

3. Pl. forces, political and military

4. Shoulder of animal sacrificed, belonging to priest

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.