[נָכֹחַ] adjective and substantive straight, right, straightness, feminine נְכֹחָה, plural נְכֹחִים, וֺת-: — [Isa 57:2] הֹלֵךְ נְכֹחוֺ he that walks in (compare [Isa 33:15]; [Isa 50:10]) his straightness (Ges 'der seinen geraden Weg geht'), figurative for straightforwardly (compare [Prov 4:25]); נְכֹחָה what is straight in front, figurative straightforwardness, honesty, [Amos 3:10] ׳לֹא יָָֽדְעוּ עֲשׂוֺת נ, [Isa 59:14] לֹא תוּכַל לָבוֺא ׳ונ (|| אֱמֶת); [2Sam 15:3] דבריך טובים וּנְכֹחִים thy pleadings are good and right (i.e. true), [Prov 8:9] (of words of Wisdom) כֻּלָּם נְכֹחִים לַמֵּבִין i.e. they lead straight to the right goal (|| ישׁרים; compare v[Prov 8:8]b אֵין בָּהֶם נִפָתָּל וְעִקֵּשׁ), [Prov 24:26] מֵשִׁיב דְּבָרִים נְכֹחִים i.e. either correct (leading to the right point), or honest answers; [Isa 30:10] לֹאתֶֿחֱזוּ לָנוּ נְכֹחוֺת true things (opposed to חֲלָקוֺת, מַהֲתַלּוֺת illusions), [Isa 26:10] בְּאֶרֶץ נְכֹחוֺת יְעַוֵּל in a land of rectitude (Che) he will do wickedly.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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