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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #5912 - עָכָן

Transliteration

ʻÂkân

Phonetics

aw-kawn'

Origin

from an unused root meaning to trouble

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Achan = "troubler"
1. a Judaite who violated God´s specific ban on taking any loot from the captured city of Jericho and was stoned to death along with his family for this violation

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (6)

Joshua 6

BSB (6)

Joshua 6

CSB (6)

Joshua 6

ESV (6)

Joshua 6

KJV (6)

Joshua 6

LEB (6)

Joshua 6

LSB (6)

Joshua 6

N95 (6)

Joshua 6

NAS (6)

Joshua 6

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (6)

Joshua 6

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עָכָן proper name, masculine man of Judah; — Joshua 7:1 (P), Joshua 7:18; Joshua 7:19; Joshua 7:20; Joshua 7:24 (JE), Joshua 22:20 (P); = עָכָר 1 Chronicles 2:7 (from עָכוֺר Joshua 7:26, see also עָכָר); Αχαρ, Αχαν.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עָכָן pr.n. (“troubling,” i.q. עָכָר, as this name is actually written, 1 Chronicles 2:7), [Achan], an Israelite, who, by his sacrilege, occasioned the people to be smitten, Joshua 7:1, 22:20.

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List of Word Forms

עָכָ֗ן עָכָ֛ן עָכָ֞ן עָכָ֣ן עכן ‘ā·ḵān ‘āḵān aChan