Brown-Driver-Briggs
[
יָעַז]
verb only
Niph`al Participle as adjective (precise meaning dubious; Arabic
is give a nod or sign, then command, whence Hebrew might have meaning nodding, making signs (not intelligibly speaking), so Hi — Che barbarous, De 'ungeberdig' — which context favours, or arrogant; Thes proposes durus, saevus, and compare עזז) — in phrase עַם נוֺעָז Isaiah 33:19 a barbarous (?) people, of foreign invader.
יעזיאל, יעזיהו see below עזה.
יַעְזִרִ see below עזר. p. 741.