Strong Men

But there was a Strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the Men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

• Hebrew

Be Strong, and quit yourselves like Men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like Men, and fight.

And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty Strong Men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

• Captive
• Rulers

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their Strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young Men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

And all the Men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were Strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were Strong Men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, Strong Men, eighteen.

• Armies

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning Men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was Strong.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many Strong Men have been slain by her.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and Strong Men retain riches.

• Figurative
• Race

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the Strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to Men of understanding, nor yet favour to Men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the Strong Men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and Men of strength to mingle Strong drink:

How say ye, We are mighty and Strong Men for the war?

Kerioth is taken, and the Strong holds are surprised, and the mighty Men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring Men, the renowned city, which wast Strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

• War

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like Men, be Strong.

• War

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young Men, because ye are Strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.