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Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

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אֶחָד
Transliteration
'eḥāḏ
Pronunciation
ekh-awd'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A numeral from אָחַד (H258)
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TWOT Reference: 61

Strong’s Definitions

אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x

The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x
The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. one (number)

    1. one (number)

    2. each, every

    3. a certain

    4. an (indefinite article)

    5. only, once, once for all

    6. one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one

    7. first

    8. eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
STRONGS H259: Abbreviations
אֶחָד 962 adjective number one (Phoenician אחד, Sabean id., compare DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدً, Ethiopic አሐዱ፡ Aramaic חַד, dfo; on Assyrian edu, aḫadu, compare DlW No. 139) — absoluteא׳ Genesis 1:5 —אַחַ֫ד Genesis 21:15 +; so even before preposition 1 Samuel 9:3 and elsewhere see Dr; feminine absolute אַחַ֫ת Genesis 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת † Genesis 11:1 +; construct אַחַ֫ת Deuteronomy 13:13 +; plural masculine אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 + 4:t.; חַד Ezekiel 33:30 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; —
1. one Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38, 45; Exodus 12:49; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 12:3 +, Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Job 31:15 +, so also (emphatic) 2 Samuel 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֺם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezra 10:13; as substantive followed by מִן Genesis 2:21; Leviticus 4:2, 13; Isaiah 34:16 +; הָא׳ Genesis 19:9; Genesis 42:13, 32; 2 Kings 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Genesis 40:5; Job 31:15; plural דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 compare Ezekiel 37:17 (absolute), but see Co;＝few, a few יָמִים א׳ ‴ Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20; Daniel 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Judges 20:8; 1 Samuel 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late＝Aramaic כַּחֲדָא † Ezra 2:64 (= Nehemiah 7:66) Ezra 3:9; Ezra 6:20; Ecclesiastes 11:6; see especially Isaiah 65:25 (|| earlier יַחְדֶּו Isaiah 11:6, 7).
2.＝each, every Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3, 85; Numbers 28:21; 1 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 15:20 +; also repeated, distributive sense Numbers 7:11; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 17:21; Joshua 3:12; Joshua 4:2, 4.
3.＝a certain 1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1; Esther 3:8 — 2 Samuel 17:9 see Dr 1 Samuel 1:1; hence
4.＝indefinite article 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Kings 19:4, 5 +.
5. only 1 Kings 4:19; & (feminine) once 2 Kings 6:10; Psalm 62:12; Psalm 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֺשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Chronicles 9:21, בַּשָּׁנָה א׳ Leviticus 16:34 compare Job 40:5, אֶחָ֑ת אֶחָ֑ת Joshua 6:3, 11 compare Joshua 6:14, בְּאַחַת Numbers 10:4; Job 33:14; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Proverbs 28:18 compare וְאִנָּקְמֶה נְקַם־אַחַת Judges 16:28. **Num 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather 'in one (of the trumpets)'; Job 33:14 it＝in one way; Proverbs 28:18 read probably with Syriac Version Lag Dy Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת; Judges 16:28 is rather 'vengeance for one of my two eyes' (see GFM). Jeremiah 10:8 בְּאַחַת probably＝in one, altogether. אחד.
6. one... another, the one... the other א׳⬩⬩⬩א׳ Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3, 4; Amos 4:7; 2 Samuel 12:1; Jeremiah 24:2; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Nehemiah 4:11 +; 2 Samuel 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו for האחד את־האחד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Isaiah 27:12 compare Ecclesiastes 7:27.
7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Genesis 1:5 (P) Genesis 2:11 (J) Exodus 39:10 (P); absolute Job 42:14, Ezekiel 10:14 especially of first day of month Exodus 40:2 (P) Ezra 3:6; Ezra 10:16, 17; Nehemiah 8:2; Haggai 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 9:1, 2; Daniel 11:1 compare first (day, יוֺם omitted) Genesis 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Exodus 40:17; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 29:1; Numbers 33:38 (all P) Deuteronomy 1:3; 2 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 7:9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 45:18.
8. in combination,
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (compare עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Joshua 15:51 (P) 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:5, 11; Jeremiah 52:1 (precedes noun, except Joshua 15:51; as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1 compare 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29;
b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת Numbers 1:41; compare Numbers 2:16, 28; Numbers 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּיִם וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 12:13 compare 2 Kings 22:1 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Kings 24:18＝Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:11; Joshua 12:24 (D) Isaiah 30:17; Ezra 2:26＝Nehemiah 7:30 compare Nehemiah 7:37; Daniel 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 8:13 (P) Exodus 12:18 (P), 1 Chronicles 24:17; 1 Chronicles 25:28; 2 Chronicles 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 Kings 16:23; Haggai 2:1 (א׳ following).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:9; 2:11; 2:21; 2:21; 8:5; 8:13; 8:13; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 19:9; 21:15; 27:38; 27:44; 27:45; 29:20; 32:23; 37:9; 40:5; 42:13; 42:32

Exodus

12:18; 12:49; 17:12; 18:3; 18:4; 36:30; 39:10; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:2; 4:13; 16:34; 23:24

Numbers

1:18; 1:41; 2:16; 2:28; 7:3; 7:11; 7:85; 10:4; 10:4; 13:2; 28:21; 29:1; 31:34; 31:39; 33:38

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:3; 13:13

Joshua

3:12; 4:2; 4:4; 6:3; 6:11; 6:14; 12:24; 15:51; 15:51; 23:10

Judges

16:28; 16:28; 20:8

1 Samuel

1:1; 1:1; 1:24; 6:7; 9:3; 11:7; 24:15; 26:20

2 Samuel

12:1; 12:3; 14:6; 17:3; 17:9; 18:10

1 Kings

4:7; 4:19; 6:38; 14:21; 15:10; 16:23; 19:4; 19:5

2 Kings

4:1; 6:3; 6:5; 6:10; 9:29; 14:23; 15:20; 22:1; 23:36; 24:18; 24:18

1 Chronicles

24:17; 25:28

2 Chronicles

3:17; 9:21; 12:13; 16:13; 29:17; 34:1; 36:5; 36:11; 36:11; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 2:26; 2:64; 3:6; 3:9; 6:20; 7:9; 10:13; 10:16; 10:17

Nehemiah

4:11; 7:30; 7:37; 7:66; 8:2

Esther

3:8

Job

31:15; 31:15; 33:14; 33:14; 40:5; 42:14

Psalms

62:12; 89:36

Proverbs

28:18; 28:18

Ecclesiastes

7:27; 11:6

Isaiah

11:6; 11:7; 27:12; 30:17; 34:16; 65:25

Jeremiah

10:8; 24:2; 52:1; 52:1

Ezekiel

10:14; 26:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 31:1; 32:1; 33:30; 37:17; 45:18

Daniel

1:21; 9:1; 9:2; 10:13; 11:1; 11:20

Amos

4:7

Haggai

1:1; 2:1

Zechariah

14:9

Malachi

2:10

H259

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Strong's Number H259 matches the Hebrew אֶחָד ('eḥāḏ),
which occurs 60 times in 37 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12 - “So now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one H259 man for each H259 tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - “And it will be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are [fn]flowing down from above [fn]will stand in one H259 heap.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the waters which were [fn]flowing down from above stood and rose up in one H259 heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were [fn]flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - “Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one H259 man from each H259 tribe,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one H259 man from each H259 tribe;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and Joshua said to them, “[fn]Cross again before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you carry a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - “And you shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once H259. You shall do so for six days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So he had the ark of Yahweh [fn]taken around the city, circling it once H259; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - Thus the second day they marched around the city once H259 and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred [fn]shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; then I [fn]coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:2 - that they gathered themselves together with [fn]one H259 accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - they feared exceedingly because Gibeon was a great city, like one H259 of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:42 - And Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one H259 time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 -

the king of Jericho, one H259;

the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:10 -

the king of Jerusalem, one H259;

the king of Hebron, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:11 -

the king of Jarmuth, one H259;

the king of Lachish, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:12 -

the king of Eglon, one H259;

the king of Gezer, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:13 -

the king of Debir, one H259;

the king of Geder, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:14 -

the king of Hormah, one H259;

the king of Arad, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:15 -

the king of Libnah, one H259;

the king of Adullam, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16 -

the king of Makkedah, one H259;

the king of Bethel, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:17 -

the king of Tappuah, one H259;

the king of Hepher, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:18 -

the king of Aphek, one H259;

the king of Lasharon, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:19 -

the king of Madon, one H259;

the king of Hazor, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:20 -

the king of Shimron-meron, one H259;

the king of Achshaph, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:21 -

the king of Taanach, one H259;

the king of Megiddo, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:22 -

the king of Kedesh, one H259;

the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:23 -

the king of Dor in the [fn]heights of Dor, one H259;

the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one H259;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:24 -

the king of Tirzah, one H259:

in all, thirty-one H259 kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven H259 cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 -

Then the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me only one H259 lot and one H259 portion for an inheritance, since I am a numerous people whom Yahweh has thus far blessed?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:17 - Then Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people and have great power; you shall not have one H259 lot only,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:4 - ‘And he shall flee to one H259 of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and speak his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall [fn]take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may live among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - and with him ten leaders, one H259 leader for each father’s household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father’s household among the [fn]thousands of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - ‘Did not Achan the son of Zerah act unfaithfully in the things devoted to destruction, and indignation fall on all the congregation of Israel? But he was not the only H259 man to breathe his last in his iniquity.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - “One H259 of your men will pursue one thousand, for Yahweh your God is He who fights for you, just as He [fn]promised you.

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“Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one H259 word of all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have come to pass for you; not one word H259 of them has failed.

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