אַךְ
surely
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Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Accusative 158 times (98%)
- Adverb 3 times (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 161 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H389 appears — 157 distinct verses across 25 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 14 verses
- Genesis 7:23 אַךְ ptcl acc Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 9:4 אַךְ ptcl acc But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
- Genesis 9:5 וְ/אַ֨ךְ conj + adv I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 18:32 אַךְ ptcl acc He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 20:12 אַ֖ךְ ptcl acc Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 23:13 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 26:9 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 27:13 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 27:30 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 29:14 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
- Genesis 34:15 אַךְ ptcl acc Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
- Genesis 34:22 אַךְ ptcl acc Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 34:23 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
- Genesis 44:28 אַ֖ךְ ptcl acc and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 10:17 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
- Exodus 12:15 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exodus 21:21 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
- Exodus 31:13 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most assuredly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 8 verses
- Leviticus 11:4 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:21 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:36 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 21:23 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
- Leviticus 23:27 אַ֡ךְ ptcl acc "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:39 אַ֡ךְ ptcl acc "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 27:26 אַךְ ptcl acc "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.
- Leviticus 27:28 אַךְ ptcl acc "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
Numbers 11 verses
- Numbers 1:49 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
- Numbers 12:2 אַךְ ptcl acc They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.
- Numbers 14:9 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
- Numbers 18:3 אַךְ֩ ptcl acc They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
- Numbers 18:15 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
- Numbers 18:17 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 22:20 וְ/אַ֗ךְ conj + adv God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
- Numbers 26:55 אַךְ ptcl acc Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
- Numbers 31:22 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Numbers 31:23 אַ֕ךְ ptcl acc everything that may abide the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
- Numbers 36:6 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.
Deuteronomy 5 verses
- Deuteronomy 12:22 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:7 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
- Deuteronomy 16:15 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
- Deuteronomy 18:20 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
- Deuteronomy 28:29 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 3:4 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 22:19 וְ/אַ֨ךְ conj + adv However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.
Judges 6 verses
- Judges 3:24 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
- Judges 6:39 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 7:19 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
- Judges 10:15 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day.
- Judges 16:28 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
- Judges 20:39 אַךְ֩ ptcl acc The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
1 Samuel 11 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:23 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
- 1 Samuel 8:9 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
- 1 Samuel 12:20 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
- 1 Samuel 12:24 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.
- 1 Samuel 16:6 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
- 1 Samuel 18:8 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
- 1 Samuel 18:17 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
- 1 Samuel 20:39 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
- 1 Samuel 21:4 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
- 1 Samuel 25:21 אַךְ֩ ptcl acc Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.
- 1 Samuel 29:9 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Achish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:10 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
- 2 Samuel 3:13 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.
- 2 Samuel 23:10 אַךְ ptcl acc He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.
1 Kings 6 verses
- 1 Kings 9:24 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
- 1 Kings 11:12 אַךְ ptcl acc Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 11:39 אַ֖ךְ ptcl acc I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
- 1 Kings 17:13 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 22:32 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
- 1 Kings 22:43 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 9 verses
- 2 Kings 5:7 אַךְ ptcl acc It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
- 2 Kings 12:13 אַךְ֩ ptcl acc But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
- 2 Kings 13:6 אַ֠ךְ ptcl acc Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
- 2 Kings 18:20 אַךְ ptcl acc You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- 2 Kings 22:7 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
- 2 Kings 23:9 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
- 2 Kings 23:26 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
- 2 Kings 23:35 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
- 2 Kings 24:3 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
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Ezra 1 verse
Job 11 verses
- Job 2:6 אַ֖ךְ ptcl acc Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
- Job 13:15 אַךְ ptcl acc Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Job 13:20 אַךְ ptcl acc "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
- Job 14:22 אַךְ ptcl acc But his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns."
- Job 16:7 אַךְ ptcl acc But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
- Job 18:21 אַךְ ptcl acc Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
- Job 19:13 אַךְ ptcl acc "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- Job 23:6 אַךְ ptcl acc Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
- Job 30:24 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
- Job 33:8 אַ֭ךְ ptcl acc "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
- Job 35:13 אַךְ ptcl acc Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
Psalms 22 verses
- Psalms 23:6 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
- Psalms 37:8 אַךְ ptcl acc Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
- Psalms 39:5 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Psalms 39:6 אַךְ אַךְ ptcl acc ptcl acc "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
- Psalms 39:11 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
- Psalms 49:15 אַךְ ptcl acc But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For he will receive me. Selah.
- Psalms 58:11 אַךְ אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc ptcl acc So that men shall say, "Most assuredly there is a reward for the righteous. Most assuredly there is a God who judges the earth."
- Psalms 62:1 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Psalms 62:2 אַךְ ptcl acc He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.
- Psalms 62:4 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
- Psalms 62:5 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my expectation is from him.
- Psalms 62:6 אַךְ ptcl acc He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Psalms 62:9 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Psalms 68:6 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, But the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalms 68:21 אַךְ ptcl acc But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
- Psalms 73:1 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.
- Psalms 73:13 אַךְ ptcl acc Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,
- Psalms 73:18 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Psalms 75:8 אַךְ ptcl acc For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, Full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
- Psalms 85:9 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
- Psalms 139:11 אַךְ ptcl acc If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"
- Psalms 140:13 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.
Proverbs 6 verses
- Proverbs 11:23 אַךְ ptcl acc The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- Proverbs 11:24 אַךְ ptcl acc There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23 אַךְ ptcl acc In all hard work there is profit, But the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
- Proverbs 17:11 אַךְ ptcl acc An evil man seeks only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Proverbs 21:5 אַךְ אַךְ ptcl acc ptcl acc The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; And everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
- Proverbs 22:16 אַךְ ptcl acc Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, Both come to poverty.
Isaiah 10 verses
- Isaiah 14:15 אַ֧ךְ ptcl acc Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
- Isaiah 16:7 אַךְ ptcl acc Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir Hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken.
- Isaiah 19:11 אַךְ ptcl acc The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Isaiah 34:14 אַךְ ptcl acc The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
- Isaiah 34:15 אַךְ ptcl acc There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.
- Isaiah 36:5 אַךְ ptcl acc I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- Isaiah 43:24 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
- Isaiah 45:14 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.
- Isaiah 45:24 אַ֧ךְ ptcl acc Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.
- Isaiah 63:8 אַךְ ptcl acc For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.
Jeremiah 14 verses
- Jeremiah 2:35 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
- Jeremiah 3:13 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 5:4 אַךְ ptcl acc Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:
- Jeremiah 5:5 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
- Jeremiah 10:19 אַ֛ךְ ptcl acc Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
- Jeremiah 10:24 אַךְ ptcl acc Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
- Jeremiah 12:1 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
- Jeremiah 16:19 אַךְ ptcl acc Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
- Jeremiah 26:15 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
- Jeremiah 26:24 אַ֗ךְ ptcl acc But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
- Jeremiah 28:7 אַךְ ptcl acc Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
- Jeremiah 30:11 אַ֤ךְ ptcl acc For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
- Jeremiah 32:30 אַ֣ךְ אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc ptcl acc For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 34:4 אַ֚ךְ ptcl acc Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;
Lamentations 2 verses
- Lamentations 2:16 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
- Lamentations 3:3 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 4:4 אַ֥ךְ ptcl acc "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
- Hosea 12:8 אַ֣ךְ ptcl acc Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
- Hosea 12:11 אַךְ ptcl acc If Gilead is wicked, Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
Jonah 1 verse
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 1:18 אַךְ ptcl acc Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
- Zephaniah 3:7 אַךְ ptcl acc I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אך (ʼak) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “surely.” Debuting at Genesis 7:23, it then recurs through the corpus. With 157 verses in 25 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H389 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 →
- 157
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 157 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #285
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 285 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 157 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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 157 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 69 verses · 44%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 45 verses · 29%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 43 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Notwithstanding 2×, Surely 2×, Yet 2×
- American Standard Version: Howbeit 3×, But 2×, Them 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: But 31×, Surely 26×, Only 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Surely 47×, Only 43×, But 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H389 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H389 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H389 across 138 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 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 21 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H389 across 160 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
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 6 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. asseverative, often introducing with emphasis the expression of a truth (or supposed truth) newly perceived, especially in colloquial language, surely, no doubt; Gn 26:9 אַךְ הִנֵּה אִשְׁתְּךָ הִוא of a surety, lo, she is thy wife! 29:14; 44:28 Ju 3:24; 20:39 1 S 16:6 surely the anointed of י׳ is before him! 25:21 Je 5:4 ψ 58:12; 73:1, 13; but also in other cases, though rarely, Is 34:14, 15 Zp 3:7 ψ 23:6; 139:11; 140:14 Jb 16:7; 18:21; & rather singularly Ex 12:15; 31:13 Lv 23:27, 39 (all P). e.g. Genesis 26:9
- 2. restrictive:
- a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit, yet, but: Gn 9:4 howbeit, flesh with the life thereof … ye shall not eat, 20:12 Ex 21:21 Lv 21:23; 27:26 Nu 18:15, 17 2 S 3:13; Je 10:24 correct me, אַךְ בְּמִשְׁפָּט but with judgment, Jb 2:6; 13:15; sts. with an advers. force, as Is 14:15; 43:24; before an imper. (minimizing the request), Gn 23:13 only, if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me! 27:13 Ju 10:15 1 S 18:17 1 K 17:13 al. So 1 S 8:9 אַךְ כִּי (v. כִּי 1 d; and cf. πλὴν ὅτι). e.g. Genesis 9:4
- b. in contrast to other ideas generally:—(α) Gn 7:23; 18:32 אַךְ הַפַּעַם only this once (so Ex 10:17 al.) 34:15 Ex 12:16 (note accents), 1 S 18:8 וְעוֹד לוֹ אַךְ הַמְּלוּכָה and there yet remains for him only the kingdom, 21:5 Isa 45:14 אַךְ בְּךָ אֵל only in thee is God! ψ 62:2 etc. Jb 14:22; ψ 37:8 fret not thyself אַךְ לְהָרֵעַ (which leadeth) only to do evil, Pr 11:24 he that withholdeth more than is meet אַךְ לְמַחְסוֹר (tendeth) only to penury, 14:23; 21:5; 22:16; (β) attaching itself closely to the foll. word (usually an adj., rarely a verb), only, i.e. exclusively, altogether, utterly Dt 16:15 and thou shalt be אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ altogether rejoicing, 28:29 (cf. v 33 רַק) Isa 16:7 אַךְ נְכָאִים utterly stricken, 19:11 Je 16:19 nought but lies, 32:30 Ho 12:12 Jb 19:13 אַךְ זָרוּ are wholly estranged (with play on אַכְזָר cruel). e.g. Genesis 7:23
- c. as an adv. of time (with inf. abs.), twice: Gn 27:30 אַךְ יָצֹא יָצָא יַעֲקֹב … וְעֵשָׂו בָּא only just (or scarcely) had Jacob gone out, … and (= when) Esau came in, Ju 7:19.—וְאַךְ thrice: Gn 9:5 and only (second limitation of v 3); Nu 22:20 but only; Jos 22:19 but howbeit. e.g. Genesis 27:30
- —In some passages the affirmative and restrictive senses agree equally with the context; and authorities read the Hebrew differently. Thus only = nought but, altogether, is adopted by Ges Ew Hi De in ψ 23:6; 62:10; 73:1, 13; by Ew Hi De in 39:6, 7 (Che surely); by Ges Ew De in 39:12 (but Hi Che surely); by Ew Hi in 73:18 (De Che surely); by Ges Hi De in 139:11 (Ew doch). Isa 45:14 Ges Ew Hi Di only; but De Che of a truth. e.g. Psalms 23:6
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
adv. (perh. from the same demonstr. root found also in כִּי, כֹּה, כֵּן). 1. surely. 2. with a restrictive force, emphasizing what follows: a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit; b. in contrast with other ideas generally, only.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אכן (ʼâkên) (H403) — surely.
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.
אַךְ I
- only, but. Pes. 5ᵃ אך חלק the word akh (Ex. XII, 15 ‘but on the first [preceding] day’) intimates a division of the day between two categories as to the laws concerning that day. Kerith 7ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. (אַכִּים) אַכִּין the word akh in the Biblical texts. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot., a. e. א׳ ורקין מיעוטין the akh and the rak intimate limiting qualifications. e.g. Exodus 12:15
אַךְ II
- (v. אָנַךְ
- 2. affliction, calamity. B. Mets. 59ᵇ; v. חֲכָךְ. Gen. R. s. 32, end; Tanḥ. Noah 9, ed. Bub. 3, cmp. preced.
*אַךְ III
- = אֵיךְ, only with חדא together. Targ. Prov. XXII, 18 (ed. Vien. אֵיךְ).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H389 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַךְ | Particle, Accusative | Genesis 7:23 | 53 |
| אַ֣ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Deuteronomy 14:7 | 40 |
| אַ֥ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Deuteronomy 16:15 | 12 |
| אַ֚ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Exodus 12:15 | 11 |
| אַ֤ךְ | Particle, Accusative | 1 Samuel 20:39 | 11 |
| אַ֛ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Genesis 23:13 | 9 |
| אַ֗ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Deuteronomy 12:22 | 7 |
| אַ֖ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Genesis 20:12 | 4 |
| אַךְ֩ | Particle, Accusative | 1 Samuel 25:21 | 4 |
| אַ֡ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Leviticus 23:27 | 2 |
| אַ֧ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Isaiah 14:15 | 2 |
| וְ/אַ֨ךְ | Adverb | Genesis 9:5 | 2 |
| אַ֕ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Numbers 31:23 | 1 |
| אַ֠ךְ | Particle, Accusative | 2 Kings 13:6 | 1 |
| אַ֭ךְ | Particle, Accusative | Job 33:8 | 1 |
| וְ/אַ֗ךְ | Adverb | Numbers 22:20 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 152 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 157 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 7:23
- Exodus 10:17
- Leviticus 11:4
- Numbers 1:49
- Deuteronomy 12:22
- Joshua 3:4
- Judges 3:24
- 1 Samuel 1:23
- 2 Samuel 2:10
- 1 Kings 11:12
- 2 Kings 5:7
- 1 Chronicles 22:12
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.
