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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #6130 - עֲקָן

Transliteration

ʻÂqân

Phonetics

aw-kawn'

Root Word (Etymology)

from an unused root meaning to twist

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Akan = “sharp-sighted”

1) son of Ezer, descendant of Seir, and one of the chiefs of the Horites of Edom

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Genesis 1

NAS (1)

Genesis 1

HCS (1)

Genesis 1

BSB (1)

Genesis 1

ESV (1)

Genesis 1

WEB (1)

Genesis 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עֲקָן proper name, masculine in Edom; — ׳וַע Genesis 36:27, (Ι)ουκαμ = יַעֲקָן 1 Chronicles 1:42, Ωναν, Ιαακαν etc. (see Lag^{BN 84.Anm}.**; also בְּנֵייַֿעֲקָ֑ן and ׳יע׳בְּאֵרֹת ב ).

עקר (√ of following; meaning dubious; compare Aramaic עִקָּרָא root; Ethiopic medicine; Arabic verb apparently denominative extirpate, ᵑ7עֲקַר id.; Late Hebrew עָקַר = Biblical Hebrew).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עֲקָן [Akan], pr.n. m. Genesis 36:27, for which there is יַעֲקָן Numbers 33:31; Deuteronomy 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:42.

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List of Word Forms

וַעֲקָֽן׃ ועקן׃ vaaKan wa‘ăqān wa·‘ă·qān