עָכָר
Achar
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5917 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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At its core, עכר (ʻÂkâr) means “Achar.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Chronicles (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 2:7. 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 H5917 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Achar 1×
- American Standard Version: Achar 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Achar 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Achar 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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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.
- Achar = "troubler"
- a Judaite who violated God's specific ban on taking any loot from the captured city of Jericho and was stoned to death…
Word origin
Derived from עכר (ʻâkar) (H5916) — to trouble.
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.
עָכַר
- (b. h.) to stir up, disturb; to trouble, make turbid; to sadden. Sot. 5ᵃ כל אדם … עוֹכַרְתּוֹ if a man has swelling of wind (haughtiness) in him, the slightest breeze will trouble him (the slightest adversity will upset him); מה ים … עוכרתו וכ׳ if the sea … is stirred up by the slightest breeze &c. Y. Keth. I, 25ᵇ bot. לעוֹכֵר את העין וכ׳ (not לעובר) like one troubling the eye, which becomes clear again. Ber. 25ᵇ עוֹכְרָן ברגלו he must stir them up with his foot. Gen. R. s. 80, end (ref. to עכרתם, Gen. XXXIV, 30) צלולה היתה החבית ועֲכַרְתֶּם אותה the wine in the cask was clear, and you have troubled it; Yalk. ib. 135 ועֲכַרְתּוּהָ. Nidd. 20ᵃ צללו חוזר ועוכרן if the mixture became clear (the earth settled), he must stir it again; a. fr.—Part. pass. עָכוּר; f. עֲכוּרָה; pl. עֲכוּרִים, עֲכוּרִין; עֲכוּרוֹת. Ib. אין … צלולין אלא ע׳ you must not examine the mixture when it is clear, but when it is turbid; Tosef. ib. III, 11. Gen. R. l. c. ע׳ היתה … וצללנו אותה the wine was turbid, and we cleared it (we redeemed our honor). Snh. 44ᵇ; Lev. R. s. 9 (ref. to Josh. VII, 25) היום הזה אתה ע׳ ואי אתה ע׳ וכ׳ thou art troubled (punished) this day, but thou shalt not be troubled in the hereafter. Sifré Deut. 48 שתה ממים של בוראך … מים ע׳ וכ׳ drink of the water of thy Creator’s well, and drink not muddy water, nor be attracted by the words of the heretics; Yalk. Prov. 937; a. fr.—Ex. R. s. 22 (ref. to Job XVI, 17) וכי יש תפלה ע׳ is there also a turbid prayer? Ib. מנין … שתפלתו ע׳ where is it intimated that the prayer of him in whose hand is robbery, is turbid (rejected)? e.g. Genesis 34:30
- to be stirred up; to become turbid, dreggy, foul. Nidd. 9ᵃ דם נ׳ ונעשה חלב the blood (of a pregnant animal) is disturbed (decomposed), and turns into milk. Y. Sot. IV, 19ᶜ bot. אין החלב נ׳ וכ׳ the milk (of a nursing woman) becomes turbid only after three months (after conception). Y. Nidd. II, end, 50ᵇ יצללו ולא יֵעָכְרוּ the water mixed with earth must settle and not be stirred up again; a. fr.—Men. IX, 5 (90ᵃ) הלח נ׳ היבש אינו נ׳ (Bab. ed. נעקר; Ms. M. נעבר, corr. acc.; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) liquid emptied from a large measure into a smaller one is stirred up (and what remains in the large measure partakes of the sacred character of the liquid in the smaller, sacred vessels), whereas dry objects are not stirred up.
עֲכַר
- Targ. Gen. XXXIV, 30; a. fr.—Nidd. 20ᵃ דלא לרמיה … ולִיעַכְרִינְהוּ אבל במנא כי ע׳ וכ׳ that he must not throw the earth in with his hands to make the water turbid, but when the earth is in the vessel, and he stirs with his hands, it is right. Y. ib. II, end, 50ᵇ ר׳ … ע׳ R. Ḥ. stirred the mixture up (in order to examine the color); a. e.—Part. pass. עָכִיר; f. עֲכִירָא; pl. עֲכִירֵי; עֲכִירָן. Ḥull. 55ᵇ. Men. 53ᵃ דהוה ע׳ דעתיה (Ms. M. בדחא) that his mind was troubled; Yalk. Ex. 166; Yalk. Ps. 667 (not עבידא; v. Rabb. D. S. to Men. l. c. note 50).
- to be disturbed, spoiled. Targ. Prov. XV, 6.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5917, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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