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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.
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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 1 / 4 (Gen 7:23–Jdg 16:28)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:4 - But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field: take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I should die on her account.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - And his mother said to him, upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh: and he abode with him the space of a month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - But in this will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you shall be circumcised;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only herein, will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us shall be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23 - Will not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28 - And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eateth leavened bread, from the first day till the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you: no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - Notwithstanding, if he shall continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:13 - Speak thou also to the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - Yet these may ye eat, of every flying creeping animal that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - Nevertheless, a fountain or pit, in which there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - Only he shall not go in to the vail, nor come nigh to the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:27 - Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoke only by Moses? hath he not spoke also by us? And the LORD heard it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense has departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether of men or beast, shall be thine: nevertheless, the first born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:20 - And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call thee, rise and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to thee, that shalt thou perform.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:22 - Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23 - Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7 - Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15 - Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast to the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase, and in all the works of thy hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:20 - But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - Not withstanding, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass ye over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer-chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - And Gideon said to God, Let not thy anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: Let me make trial, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do thou to us whatever seemeth good to thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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