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Lexicon :: Strong's H389 - 'aḵ

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אַךְ
Transliteration
'aḵ
Pronunciation
ak
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 84

Strong’s Definitions

אַךְ ʼak, ak; akin to H403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only:—also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet (but).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H389 in the following manner: also, but, certainly, even, howbeit, least, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, scarce, surely, surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H389 in the following manner: also, but, certainly, even, howbeit, least, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, scarce, surely, surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet.

  1. indeed, surely (emphatic)

  2. howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַךְ ʼak, ak; akin to H403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only:—also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet (but).
STRONGS H389: Abbreviations
אַךְ 159 adverb (perhaps from the same demonstrative, root found also in כִּי, כֹּה, כֵּן).
1. surely.
2. with a restrictive force, emphasizing what follows:
a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit;
b. in contrast with other ideas generally, only.
1. asseverative, often introducing with emphasis the expression of a truth (or supposed truth) newly perceived, especially in colloquial language, surely, no doubt (doch wohl); Genesis 26:9 אַךְ הִנֵּה אִשְׁתְּךָ הִוא of a surety, lo, she is thy wife ! Genesis 29:14; Genesis 44:28; Judges 3:24; Judges 20:39; 1 Samuel 16:6 surely the anointed of י׳ is before him ! 1 Samuel 25:21; Jeremiah 5:4; Psalm 58:12; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 73:13; but also in other cases, though rarely, Isaiah 34:14, 15; Zephaniah 3:7; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 139:11; Psalm 140:14; Job 16:7; Job 18:21; & rather singularly Exodus 12:15; Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 23:27, 39 (all P).
2. restrictive:
a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit, yet, but : Genesis 9:4 howbeit, flesh with the life thereof... ye shall not eat, Genesis 20:12; Exodus 21:21; Leviticus 21:23; Leviticus 27:26; Numbers 18:15, 17; 2 Samuel 3:13; Jeremiah 10:24 correct me, בְּמִשְׁפָּט אַךְ but with judgment, Job 2:6; Job 13:15; sometimes with an adversative force, as Isaiah 14:15; Isaiah 43:24; before an imperative (minimizing the request), Genesis 23:13 only, if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me ! Genesis 27:13; Judges 10:15; 1 Samuel 18:17; 1 Kings 17:13 and elsewhere So 1 Samuel 8:9 אַךְ כִּי (see כִּי; and compare πλὴν ὅτι).
b. in contrast to other ideas generally : —
(α) Genesis 7:23; Genesis 18:32 אַךְ הַפַּעַם only this once (so Exodus 10:17 and elsewhere) Exodus 34:15; Exodus 12:16 (note accents), 1 Samuel 18:8 וְעוֺד לוֺ אַךְ תַמְּלוּכָה and there yet remains for him only the kingdom, 1 Samuel 21:5; Isaiah 45:14 אַךָ בְּךָ אֵל only in thee is God! Psalm 62:2 etc. Job 14:22; Psalm 37:8 fret not thyself אַךְ לְהָרֵעַ (which leadeth) only to do evil, Proverbs 11:24 he that withholdeth more than is meet אַךְ לְמַחְסוֺר (tendeth) only to penury, Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 21:5; Proverbs 22:16;
(β) attaching itself closely to the following word (usually an adjective, rarely a verb), only, i.e. exclusively, altogether, utterly Deuteronomy 16:15 and thou shalt be אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ altogether rejoicing, Deuteronomy 28:29 (compare Deuteronomy 28:33 רַק) Isaiah 16:7 אַךְ נְכָאִים utterly stricken, Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 16:19 nought but lies, Jeremiah 32:30; Hosea 12:12; Job 19:13 אַךְ זָרוּ are wholly estranged (with play on אַכְזָר cruel).
c. as an adverb of time (with infinitive absolute), twice: Genesis 27:30 בָּא וְעֵשָׂו⬩⬩⬩יַצֲקֹב יָצָא יָצא אַךְ only just (or scarcely) had Jacob gone out,... and (= when) Esau came in, Judges 7:19. — וְאַח thrice : Genesis 9:5 and only (second limitation of Genesis 9:3); Numbers 22:20 but only; Joshua 22:19 but howbeit.
Note. — In some passages the affirmative and restrictive senses agree equally with the context; and authorities read the Hebrew differently. Thus only = nought but, altogether, is adopted by Ges Ew Hi De in Psalm 23:6; Psalm 62:10; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 73:13; by Ew Hi De in Psalm 39:6; Psalm 39:7 (Che surely); by Ges Ew De in Psalm 39:12 (but Hi Che surely); by Ew Hi in Psalm 73:18 (De Che surely); by Ges Hi De in Psalm 139:11 (Ew doch). Isaiah 45:14 Ges Ew Hi Di only; but De Che of a truth.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:23; 9:3; 9:4; 9:5; 18:32; 20:12; 23:13; 26:9; 27:13; 27:30; 29:14; 44:28

Exodus

10:17; 12:15; 12:16; 21:21; 31:13; 34:15

Leviticus

21:23; 23:27; 23:39; 27:26

Numbers

18:15; 18:17; 22:20

Deuteronomy

16:15; 28:29; 28:33

Joshua

22:19

Judges

3:24; 7:19; 10:15; 20:39

1 Samuel

8:9; 16:6; 18:8; 18:17; 21:5; 25:21

2 Samuel

3:13

1 Kings

17:13

Job

2:6; 13:15; 14:22; 16:7; 18:21; 19:13

Psalms

23:6; 23:6; 37:8; 39:6; 39:7; 39:12; 62:2; 62:10; 73:1; 73:1; 73:13; 73:13; 73:18; 139:11; 139:11

Proverbs

11:24; 14:23; 21:5; 22:16

Isaiah

14:15; 16:7; 19:11; 34:14; 34:15; 43:24; 45:14; 45:14

Jeremiah

5:4; 10:24; 16:19; 32:30

Hosea

12:12

Zephaniah

3:7

H389

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Strong's Number H389 matches the Hebrew אַךְ ('aḵ),
which occurs 161 times in 157 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jdg 20:39–Psa 39:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike [fn]and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, “Surely H389 they are [fn]defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best [fn]to you. Remain until you have weaned him; only H389 may the LORD confirm His word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9 - “Now then, listen to their voice; however, H389 you shall solemnly [fn]warn them and tell them of the [fn]procedure of the king who will reign over them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet H389 do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:24 - “Only H389 [fn]fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:6 - When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely H389 the LORD’S anointed is before Him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - Then Saul became very angry, for this saying [fn]displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:17 - Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only H389 be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD’S battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:39 - But the lad was not aware of anything; only H389 Jonathan and David knew about the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread [fn]on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only H389 the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - Now David had said, “Surely H389 in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9 - But Achish replied to David, “I know that you are pleasing in my sight, like an angel of God; nevertheless H389 the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us to the battle.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10 - Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. The house of Judah, however, H389 followed David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:13 - He said, “Good! I will make a covenant with you, but I demand one thing of you, [fn]namely, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see [fn]me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:10 - He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary and [fn]clung to the sword, and the LORD brought about a great [fn]victory that day; and the people returned after him only H389 to strip the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - As soon H389 as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12 - “Nevertheless H389 I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:39 - ‘Thus I will afflict the [fn]descendants of David for this, but not always.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from [fn]it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32 - So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely H389 it is the king of Israel,” and they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. However, H389 the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking [fn]a quarrel against me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - But there were not made for the house of the LORD silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Nevertheless H389 they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in [fn]them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - “You say (but they are [fn]only H389 empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:7 - “Only H389 no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless H389 the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - However, H389 the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the [fn]command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Surely H389 at the [fn]command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12 - “Only H389 the LORD give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:33 - The high places, however, H389 were not removed; the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:11 - Nevertheless H389 some men of Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:15 - Only H389 Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah [fn]opposed this, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your [fn]power, only H389 spare his life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:15 - “Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless H389 I will argue my ways [fn]before Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20 - “Only H389 two things do not do to me,
Then I will not hide from Your face:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 - “But his [fn]body pains him,
And he mourns only for himself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - “But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21 - “Surely H389 such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - “He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely H389 estranged from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:6 - “Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power?
No, surely H389 He would pay attention to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:24 - “Yet H389 does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:8 - “Surely H389 you have spoken in my hearing,
And I have heard the sound of your words:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - “Surely H389 God will not listen to [fn]an empty cry,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:6 - [fn]Surely H389 goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will [fn]dwell in the house of the LORD [fn]forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only H389 to evildoing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5 - “Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely H389 every man [fn]at his best is [fn]a mere breath. [fn]Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:6 - “Surely H389 every man walks about as [fn]a phantom;
Surely H389 they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 - “With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely H389 every man is a mere breath. Selah.

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