אִכָּר
plowman
also: husbandman, farmer fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
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.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
6 distinct verses where H406 appears in the Absolute state, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 14:4 אִכָּרִ֖ים n c mp Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
- Jeremiah 31:24 אִכָּרִ֕ים n c mp Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
- Jeremiah 51:23 אִכָּ֣ר n c ms and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.
Joel 1 verse
Amos 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.
אכר — transliterated ʼikkâr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “plowman.” Its earliest occurrence is 2 Chronicles 26:10. Spanning 7 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Jeremiah (43% of all occurrences). BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “plowman” it spans “husbandman” and “farmer”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H406 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 3 verses 43%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 14%
- Isaiah 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 86%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 14%
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: Husbandman 2×, Husbandmen 2×
- American Standard Version: Husbandman 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Farmers 3×, Farmer 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Farmers 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H406 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- plowman, husbandman, farmer
- working the land, yet not owning any of it
Word origin
n.m. Jo 1:11 ploughman, husbandman (Ar. أَكَّارٌ, Aramaic ܐܰܟܳܪܳܐ, אִיכָּרָא, cf. Mish.) א׳ sg. abs. Je 51:23 (+ וְצִמְדּוֹ) Am 5:16; pl. אִכָּרִים Je 14:4; 31:24(23) (‖ וְנָֽסְעוּ בָעֵדֶר) 2 Ch 26:10 (‖ כֹּרְמִים) Jo 1:11 (‖ id.), אִכָּרֵיכֶם Is 61:5 (‖ id.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to dig
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.
אִכָּר
- , v. אִי׳
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 7 distinct written forms H406 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אִכָּ֣ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:23 | 1 |
| אִכָּר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 5:16 | 1 |
| אִכָּרִ֕ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 31:24 | 1 |
| אִכָּרִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 14:4 | 1 |
| אִכָּרִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joel 1:11 | 1 |
| אִכָּרִ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 26:10 | 1 |
| אִכָּרֵי/כֶ֖ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 61:5 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
