אֶחָד
one
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H259
Strong's Hebrew
ʼechâd
Transliteration
/ekh-awd'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
976
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
one (number)
- one (number)
- each, every
- a certain
- an (indefinite article)
- only, once, once for all
- one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one
- first
- eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 670 times (69%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 264 times (27%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct 28 times (3%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Construct 9 times (1%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 5 times (1%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 976 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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2 Samuel 27 verses
- 2 Samuel 6:20 אַחַ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
- 2 Samuel 7:7 אַחַד֙ adj Cardinal number ms In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
- 2 Samuel 7:23 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
- 2 Samuel 9:11 כְּ/אַחַ֖ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
- 2 Samuel 12:1 אֶחָ֔ת אֶחָ֥ד וְ/אֶחָ֥ד adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 12:3 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
- 2 Samuel 13:13 כְּ/אַחַ֥ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.
- 2 Samuel 13:30 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
- 2 Samuel 14:6 הָ/אֶחָ֛ד הָ/אֶחָ֖ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
- 2 Samuel 14:27 אַחַ֖ת adj Cardinal number fs To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.
- 2 Samuel 15:2 מֵ/אַחַ֥ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 17:9 בְּ/אַחַ֣ת בְּ/אַחַ֣ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs cs prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 17:12 ב/אחת בְּ/אַחַ֤ד אֶחָֽד prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs cs prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.
- 2 Samuel 17:22 אַחַד֙ adj Cardinal number ms Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
- 2 Samuel 18:10 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
- 2 Samuel 18:11 אֶחָֽת adj Cardinal number fs Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash.
- 2 Samuel 19:14 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return you, and all your servants.
- 2 Samuel 23:8 אחד אֶחָֽת adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number fs These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
- 2 Samuel 24:12 אַֽחַת adj Cardinal number fs Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
1 Kings 51 verses
- 1 Kings 2:16 אַחַת֙ adj Cardinal number fs Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him, Say on.
- 1 Kings 2:20 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.
- 1 Kings 3:17 הָֽ/אַחַת֙ אֶחָ֑ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
- 1 Kings 3:25 לְ/אַחַ֔ת לְ/אֶחָֽת prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
- 1 Kings 4:7 אחד הָ/אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
- 1 Kings 4:19 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.
- 1 Kings 4:22 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
- 1 Kings 6:24 הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:25 אַחַ֛ת אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
- 1 Kings 6:26 הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
- 1 Kings 6:27 הָֽ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:34 הָֽ/אַחַת֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- 1 Kings 6:38 הָ/אַחַ֨ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
- 1 Kings 7:15 הָ/אֶחָ֔ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.
- 1 Kings 7:16 הָ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:17 הָ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 7:18 הָ/אֶחָ֗ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 7:27 הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- 1 Kings 7:30 הָֽ/אַחַת֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs Every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
- 1 Kings 7:32 הָ/אֶחָ֔ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
- 1 Kings 7:34 הָֽ/אֶחָ֑ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself.
- 1 Kings 7:37 אֶחָ֜ד אַחַ֛ת אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
- 1 Kings 7:38 הָ/אֶחָ֗ד הָ/אֶחָ֔ד אֶחָד֙ הָ/אַחַ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin.
- 1 Kings 7:42 הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
- 1 Kings 7:44 הָ/אֶחָ֑ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
- 1 Kings 8:56 אֶחָ֗ד adj Cardinal number ms Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
- 1 Kings 10:14 אֶחָ֑ת adj Cardinal number fs Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
- 1 Kings 10:16 הָ/אֶחָֽת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
- 1 Kings 10:17 הָ/אֶחָ֑ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 10:22 אַחַת֩ adj Cardinal number fs For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Kings 11:13 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
- 1 Kings 11:32 הָ/אֶחָ֖ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
- 1 Kings 11:36 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kings 12:29 הָ/אֶחָ֖ד הָ/אֶחָ֖ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
- 1 Kings 12:30 הָ/אֶחָ֖ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.
- 1 Kings 13:11 אֶחָד֙ adj Cardinal number ms Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.
- 1 Kings 14:21 וְ/אַחַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 15:10 וְ/אַחַת֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 16:23 וְ/אַחַ֜ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 18:6 אֶחָד֙ אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- 1 Kings 18:23 הָ/אֶחָ֜ד הָ/אֶחָ֗ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
- 1 Kings 18:25 הָֽ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 1 Kings 19:2 אַחַ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
- 1 Kings 19:4 אחת אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- 1 Kings 19:5 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
- 1 Kings 20:13 אֶחָ֗ד adj Cardinal number ms Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 20:29 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred thousand footmen in one day.
- 1 Kings 20:35 אֶחָ֜ד adj Cardinal number ms A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to strike him.
- 1 Kings 22:8 אֶחָ֡ד adj Cardinal number ms The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
- 1 Kings 22:9 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
- 1 Kings 22:13 אֶחָ֥ד אַחַ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak you good.
2 Kings 29 verses
- 2 Kings 2:16 בְּ/אַחַ֣ד בְּ/אַחַ֣ת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs cs They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
- 2 Kings 3:11 אֶחָ֞ד adj Cardinal number ms But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
- 2 Kings 4:1 אַחַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
- 2 Kings 4:22 אֶחָ֣ד וְ/אַחַ֖ת adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
- 2 Kings 4:35 אַחַ֥ת וְ/אַחַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
- 2 Kings 4:39 אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
- 2 Kings 6:2 אֶחָ֔ת adj Cardinal number fs Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.
- 2 Kings 6:3 הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
- 2 Kings 6:5 הָֽ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Kings 6:10 אַחַ֖ת adj Cardinal number fs The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
- 2 Kings 6:12 אַחַ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.
- 2 Kings 7:8 אֶחָד֙ adj Cardinal number ms When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.
- 2 Kings 7:13 אֶחָ֨ד adj Cardinal number ms One of his servants answered, Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are consumed); and let us send and see.
- 2 Kings 8:6 אֶחָ֜ד adj Cardinal number ms When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
- 2 Kings 8:26 אַחַ֔ת adj Cardinal number fs Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 9:1 לְ/אַחַ֖ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Kings 9:29 אַחַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
- 2 Kings 12:9 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 14:23 וְ/אַחַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty-one years.
- 2 Kings 15:20 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
- 2 Kings 17:27 אֶחָ֤ד adj Cardinal number ms Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.
- 2 Kings 17:28 אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 18:24 אַחַ֛ד adj Cardinal number ms How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- 2 Kings 22:1 וְ/אַחַת֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
- 2 Kings 23:36 וְ/אַחַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
- 2 Kings 24:18 וְ/אַחַ֤ת וְ/אַחַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
- 2 Kings 25:16 הָֽ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
- 2 Kings 25:17 הָ/אֶחָ֗ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
- 2 Kings 25:19 אֶחָ֜ד adj Cardinal number ms and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
1 Chronicles 13 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:19 הָ/אֶחָ֞ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
- 1 Chronicles 11:11 אֶחָֽת adj Cardinal number fs This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
- 1 Chronicles 12:14 אֶחָ֤ד adj Cardinal number ms These of the sons of Gad were captains of the host: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
- 1 Chronicles 17:6 אַחַד֙ adj Cardinal number ms In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
- 1 Chronicles 17:21 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
- 1 Chronicles 21:10 אַחַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
- 1 Chronicles 23:11 אֶחָֽת adj Cardinal number fs Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
- 1 Chronicles 24:6 אֶחָ֗ד adj Cardinal number ms Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:17 אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
- 1 Chronicles 25:28 לְ/אֶחָ֤ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 27:1 הָֽ/אַחַ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' [houses] and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 29:1 אֶחָ֛ד adj Cardinal number ms David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
2 Chronicles 25 verses
- 2 Chronicles 3:11 הָ/אֶחָ֜ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:12 הָ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:17 אֶחָ֥ד וְ/אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
- 2 Chronicles 4:13 הָ/אֶחָ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
- 2 Chronicles 4:15 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 כְ֠/אֶחָד אֶחָ֗ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
- 2 Chronicles 9:13 אֶחָ֑ת adj Cardinal number fs Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
- 2 Chronicles 9:15 הָ/אֶחָֽת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 הָ/אֶחָ֑ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21 אַחַת֩ adj Cardinal number fs For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 וְ/אַחַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 2 Chronicles 16:13 וְ/אַחַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
- 2 Chronicles 18:7 אֶחָ֡ד adj Cardinal number ms The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, Don't let the king say so.
- 2 Chronicles 18:8 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
- 2 Chronicles 18:12 אֶחָ֥ד כְּ/אַחַ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, Please be like one of theirs, and speak you good.
- 2 Chronicles 22:2 אַחַ֔ת adj Cardinal number fs Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
- 2 Chronicles 24:8 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 בְּ/אֶחָ֞ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
- 2 Chronicles 30:12 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 אֶחָ֛ד adj Cardinal number ms Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?
- 2 Chronicles 34:1 וְ/אַחַת֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:5 וְ/אַחַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.
- 2 Chronicles 36:11 וְ/אַחַ֛ת וְ/אַחַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
- 2 Chronicles 36:22 אַחַ֗ת adj Cardinal number fs Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
Ezra 11 verses
- Ezra 1:1 אַחַ֗ת adj Cardinal number fs Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
- Ezra 2:26 וְ/אֶחָֽד conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Ezra 2:64 כְּ/אֶחָ֑ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
- Ezra 3:1 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- Ezra 3:6 אֶחָד֙ adj Cardinal number ms From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.
- Ezra 3:9 כְּ/אֶחָ֔ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
- Ezra 6:20 כְּ/אֶחָ֖ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
- Ezra 7:9 בְּ/אֶחָד֙ וּ/בְ/אֶחָ֞ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
- Ezra 10:13 אֶחָד֙ adj Cardinal number ms But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
- Ezra 10:16 אֶחָד֙ adj Cardinal number ms The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
- Ezra 10:17 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Nehemiah 9 verses
- Nehemiah 1:2 אֶחָ֧ד adj Cardinal number ms that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 4:17 בְּ/אַחַ֤ת וְ/אַחַ֖ת prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
- Nehemiah 5:18 אֶחָ֗ד אֶחָ֞ד adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
- Nehemiah 7:30 וְ/אֶחָֽד conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:37 וְ/אֶחָֽד conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:66 כְּ/אֶחָ֑ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
- Nehemiah 8:1 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:2 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Nehemiah 11:1 אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
Esther 5 verses
- Esther 3:8 אֶחָ֗ד adj Cardinal number ms Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them.
- Esther 3:13 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 4:11 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
- Esther 7:9 אֶחָ֨ד adj Cardinal number ms Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. The king said, Hang him thereon.
- Esther 8:12 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms on one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
Job 12 verses
- Job 2:10 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 9:3 אַחַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.
- Job 9:22 אַחַ֗ת adj Cardinal number fs "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- Job 14:4 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
- Job 23:13 בְ֭/אֶחָד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
- Job 31:15 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
- Job 33:14 בְ/אַחַ֥ת prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs For God speaks once, Yes twice, though man pays no attention.
- Job 33:23 אֶחָ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms "If there is beside him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show to man what is right for him;
- Job 40:5 אַחַ֣ת adj Cardinal number fs I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
- Job 41:16 אֶחָ֣ד בְּ/אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
- Job 42:11 אֶחָ֔ת אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
- Job 42:14 הָֽ/אַחַת֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
Psalms 9 verses
- Psalms 14:3 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
- Psalms 27:4 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
- Psalms 34:20 אַחַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
- Psalms 53:3 אֶחָֽד adj Cardinal number ms Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
- Psalms 62:11 אַחַ֤ת adj Cardinal number fs God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this, That power belongs to God.
- Psalms 82:7 וּ/כְ/אַחַ֖ד conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Nevertheless you shall die like men, And fall like one of the rulers."
- Psalms 89:35 אַ֭חַת adj Cardinal number fs Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
- Psalms 106:11 אֶחָ֥ד adj Cardinal number ms The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- Psalms 139:16 אֶחָ֣ד adj Cardinal number ms Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.
Proverbs 2 verses
Ecclesiastes 16 verses
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 אֶחָד֙ אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20 אֶחָ֑ד adj Cardinal number ms All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 אֶחָד֩ adj Cardinal number ms There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9 הָ/אֶחָ֑ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
- Ecclesiastes 4:10 הָ/אֶחָ֖ד הָֽ/אֶחָד֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.
- Ecclesiastes 4:11 וּ/לְ/אֶחָ֖ד conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
- Ecclesiastes 4:12 הָ/אֶחָ֔ד ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes 6:6 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?
- Ecclesiastes 7:27 אַחַ֥ת לְ/אַחַ֖ת adj Cardinal number fs prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs Behold, this have I found, says the Preacher, one to another, to find out the scheme;
- Ecclesiastes 7:28 אֶחָ֤ד adj Cardinal number ms which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 אֶחָ֜ד adj Cardinal number ms All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 אֶחָ֖ד adj Cardinal number ms This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:18 אֶחָ֔ד adj Cardinal number ms Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 כְּ/אֶחָ֖ד prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening don't withhold your hand; For you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, Or whether they both will be equally good.
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At its core, אחד (ʼechâd) means “one.” Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Spanning 739 verses in 34 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 1:5. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אחד, חד and אחוד. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H259 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 739
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 739 distinct verses.
- 34 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 34 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #43
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 43 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 739 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 324 verses · 44%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 295 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 120 verses · 16%
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- King James Version: One 519×, A 35×, Other 29×
- American Standard Version: One 469×, Other 30×, A 27×
- Berean Standard Bible: One 410×, Each 55×, A 53×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: One 691×, One of 38×, First 29×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H259 across 942 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 127 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H259 across 943 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 141 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H259 across 852 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 77 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 114 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H259 across 1,000 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. one Gn 1:9; 27:38, 45 Ex 12:49 Jos 23:10 1 S 1:24 2 S 12:3 +, Zc 14:9 Mal 2:10 Jb 31:15 +, so also (emph.) 2 S 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר 𝔊 We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֹם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezr 10:13; as subst. sq. מִן Gn 2:21 Lv 4:2, 13 Is 34:16 +; הָא׳ Gn 19:9; 42:13, 32 2 K 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Gn 40:5 Jb 31:15; pl. דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים †Gn 11:1 cf. Ez 37:17 (abs.), but v. Co; = few, a few יָמִים א׳ †Gn 27:44; 29:20 Dn 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Ju 20:8 1 S 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late = Aramaic כַּחֲדָא †Ezr 2:64 (= Ne 7:66) 3:9; 6:20 Ec 11:6; v. especially Is 65:25 (‖ earlier יַחְדָּו 11:6, 7). e.g. Genesis 1:9
- 2. = each, every Ex 36:30 Nu 7:3, 85; 28:21 1 K 4:7 2 K 15:20 +; also repeated, distrib. sense Nu 7:11; 13:2; 17:21 Jos 3:12; 4:2, 4. e.g. Exodus 36:30
- 3. = a certain 1 S 1:1 2 S 18:10 2 K 4:1 Est 3:8 + cf. 2 S 17:9 v. Dr 1 S 1:1; hence e.g. 1 Samuel 1:1
- 4. = indef. art. 1 S 6:7; 24:15; 26:20 (but del. 𝔊 We Dr) 1 K 19:4, 5 +. e.g. 1 Samuel 6:7
- 5. only 1 K 4:19, & (fem.) once 2 K 6:10 ψ 62:12; 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֹשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Ch 9:21, א׳ בַּשָּׁנָה Lv 16:34 cf. Jb 40:5, פַּעַם אֶחָ֑ת Jos 6:3, 11 cf. v 14, בְּאַחַת Nu 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather ‘in one (of the trumpets)’ Jb 33:14 it = in one way; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Pr 28:18 read prob. with 𝔖 Lag Dys Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת cf. וְאִנָּֽקְמָה נְקַם־אַחַת Ju 16:28 is rather ‘vengeance for one of my two eyes’ (v. GFM). Je 10:8 בְּאַחַת prob. = in one, altogether. e.g. 1 Kings 4:19
- 6. one … another, the one … the other א׳ … א׳ Ex 17:12; 18:3, 4 Am 4:7 2 S 12:1 Je 24:2 2 Ch 3:17 Ne 4:11 +; … הא׳ א׳ Lv 14:22; 15:15 2 S 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו 𝔊 We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Is 27:12 cf. Ec 7:27. e.g. Exodus 17:12
- 7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Gn 1:5 (P) 2:11 (J) Ex 39:10 (P) Ez 10:14 Jb 42:14; of first day of month Ex 40:2 (P) Ezr 3:6; 10:16, 17 Ne 8:2 Hg 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Ch 36:22 Ezr 1:1 Dn 1:21; 9:1, 2; 11:1; cf. first (day, יוֹם om.) Gn 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Ex 40:17 Lv 23:24 Nu 1:1, 18; 29:1; 33:38 (all P) Dt 1:3 2 Ch 29:17 Ezr 7:9(×2) Ez 26:1; 29:17; 31:1; 32:1; 45:18. e.g. Genesis 1:5
- 8. in combin.,
- a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (cf. עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Gn 32:23; 37:9 (JE) Dt 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Jos 15:51 (P) 2 K 23:36; 24:18 2 Ch 36:5, 11 Je 52:1 (precedes noun, except Jos 15:51); as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׁרֵה שָׁנָה Ez 30:20; 31:1 cf. 1 K 6:38 2 K 9:29; e.g. Genesis 32:23
- b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת Nu 1:41 cf. 2:16, 28; 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּעִים וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 K 14:21; 15:10 2 K 14:23 2 Ch 12:13 cf. 2 K 22:1 = 2 Ch 34:1; 2 K 24:18 = Je 52:1 = 2 Ch 36:11; Jose 12:24 (D) Is 30:17 Ezr 2:26 = Ne 7:30 cf. v 37; Dn 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה Gn 8:13 (P) Ex 12:18 (P), 1 Ch 24:17; 25:28 2 Ch 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 K 16:23 Hg 2:1 (א׳ following). e.g. Numbers 1:41
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj.num. one (Ph. אחד, Sab. id., cf. DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدٌ, Ethiopic አሐዱ Aramaic חַד,ܚܰܕ; on Assyrian êdu, aḫadu, cf. DlW No. 139)—abs. א׳ Gn 1:5 + cstr. אַחַ֫ד Gn 21:15 +; so even bef. prep. 1 S 9:3 al. v. Dr; f. abs. אַחַ֫ת Gn 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת Gn 11:1 +; cstr. אַחַ֫ת Dt 13:13 +; pl. m. אֲחָדִים Gn 11:1 + 4 times; חַד Ez 33:30 del. Co cf. 𝔊;—
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Derived from אחד (ʼâchad) (H258) — to be sharp.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֶחָד
- , אַחַת f. (b. h.; v. next w., one. [Freq. represented by א׳.] Kidd. 50ᵇ, a. fr. בבת אחת simultaneously, v. בַּת III. Peah III, 3 המחליק מאחת יד וכ׳ (Ms. M. בא׳) he who takes out onions with a unity of hand, i.e. all of them for one purpose. Ber. 61ᵇ, a. fr. על אחת כמה וכמה (abbr. עאכ"ו) how much against one, i.e. how much the more.—אחד … אחד both … as well as. Tem. I, 1 א׳ האנשים וכ׳ both, men as well as women. Y. Keth. V, 29ᵈ top אחת זו ואחתֹ זו the one as well as the other; a. fr.—כְּאֶחָד, כְּאַחַת at the same time. Tosef. Neg. I, 11; sq. Sot. 8ᵃ; a. fr.—Yoma I, 7 והפג אחת and cool thyself for once, for a change, v. חֲדַת.—Pl. אֲחָדִים
- 1. singular, unique. Yalk. Gen. 62 (ref. to דברים אחדים Gen. XI, 1) they spoke words על שני א׳ against two only ones (ref. to אחד Ezek. XXXIII, 24 a. Deut. VI, 4) [corr. acc. Gen. R. s. 38]. e.g. Genesis 11:1
- 2. (cmp. אֲחַד) closed up, mysterious. Gen. R. l. c. (Yalk. l. c. אֲחוּדִים v. next w.).
אָחַד
- (sec. r. of חוּד, v. חוּד I) to join, close. Part. pass. אָחוּד, pl. אֲחוּדִים
- 1. closed up, mysterious. Yalk. Gen. 62, v. foreg.
- 2. joined, united. Gen. R. s. 38 (ref. to Gen. XI, 1, v. foreg.) דברים א׳ common goods, communism. e.g. Genesis 11:1
אֲחַד
- , Pa. אָחֵיד, אַחֵד ch. (v. foreg.)
- 1. (corresp. to h. סגר a. תפש; cmp. h. אחז) to close (the door), to lock up; to seize, capture. Targ. Is. XXII, 22 אָחֵיד. Ib. יֵיחוֹד, יִיחוֹד (fut.).—Targ. Deut. XXI, 19 יְאַ׳ = יַחֲדוּן (Pa.; Var. יֶחֱדוּן = יֶאֶח׳ Pe.). Targ. Am. III, 5; a. fr.—Snh. 26ᵃ bot., a. e. אחדיה לדשא locked the door. Pes. 111ᵇ ליה רוחא אחדא a spirit (demon, disease) seizes him.—Part. pass. אֲחִיד a) locked up. Targ. Josh. VI, 1; a. e.—b) (v. אָחוּז, s. v. אָחַז) holding. Targ. Am. II, 15; a. fr.—Part. pass. Pa. מְאַחַד locked up, hidden. Targ. Job. XXVI, 9.
- 2. to devote, v. אֲחִיד.
- to seize. Targ. Ps. LXXIII, 23.
- 1. to be seized. Targ. Ez. XIX, 4; a. fr.
- 2. to be locked up, joined. Targ. Is. XXIV, 10 את אחידו … (read אתאחידו). Ib. LIX, 10 Rashi (ed. אתא חד corr. acc.). Targ. Job XLI, 9 (8); a. e.—אִתְּחִיד. Ḥull. 52ᵇ א׳ דשא the door was locked.
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Forms in the corpus
The 165 distinct written forms H259 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 105 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 716 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 739 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:5
- Exodus 1:15
- Leviticus 4:2
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:2
- Joshua 3:12
- Judges 4:16
- Ruth 1:4
- 1 Samuel 1:1
- 2 Samuel 1:15
- 1 Kings 2:16
- 2 Kings 2:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
