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# אָכֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H403

**firmly** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

firmly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/403/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָכֵן: adv. surely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/403/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (perh. from אַךְ; cf. Aramaic דֵּךְ & דִּכֵּן) adv. with strong asseverative force: surely, truly, especially at beginning of a speech (stronger & more decided than אַךְ) Gn 28:16 Ex 2:14 1 S 15:32 Is 40:7; 45:15 Je 3:23(×2); 4:10; 8:8. In 1 K 11:2 אָכֵן stands unusually; and פֶּן־ (cf. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 should prob. be read (so Klo). emphasizing a contrast, but indeed, but in fact, especially after אָמַרְתִּי I said or thought, expressing the reality, in opp. to what had been wrongly imagined, Is 49:4b (opp. to v 4a) 53:4 (opp. to v 3 end) Je 3:20 (opp. to the expectation v 19b) Zp 3:7b ψ 31:23b (opp. to v 23a) 66:19 82:7 (opp. to v 6) Jb 32:8 (opp. to v 7).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: truly (9); nevertheless (8).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 45:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.15/#tree)

אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

*Word for word:* truly you \[are\].a.God \[who\].hides.himself O.God of.Israel deliverer

*JPS 1917:* Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

[Psalms 66:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.19/#tree)

אָ֭כֵן שָׁמַ֣ע אֱלֹהִ֑ים הִ֝קְשִׁ֗יב בְּק֣וֹל תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless he.has.heard God he.has.paid.attention to the.sound my.prayer my

*JPS 1917:* But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/403.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/403/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).