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# עָכוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5911

**disturbance** — used 5 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

disturbance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5911/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָכוֹר: disturbance, trouble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5911/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] disturbance, trouble, only in עֵמֶק ע׳ valley of trouble, W. or SW. from Jericho Jos 7:24, 26 (JE; name explained), on border of Judah 15:7 (P), cf. Ho 2:17; Is 65:10; on identif. cf. especially Di Jos 7:24 BuhlGeogr. 98; Εμεκαχωρ, φάραγξ (or κοίλας) Αχωρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Achor (5).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 65:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.10/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה הַשָּׁרוֹן֙ לִנְוֵה־צֹ֔אן וְעֵ֥מֶק עָכ֖וֹר לְרֵ֣בֶץ בָּקָ֑ר לְעַמִּ֖י אֲשֶׁ֥ר דְּרָשֽׁוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become (the) Sharon (into).a pasture of.sheep and the.valley of.Achor (into).a resting.place of.cattle for people my who they have.sought.me

*JPS 1917:* And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for My people that have sought Me;

[Hosea 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.17/#tree)

וְנָתַ֨תִּי לָ֤הּ אֶת־כְּרָמֶ֙יהָ֙ מִשָּׁ֔ם וְאֶת־עֵ֥מֶק עָכ֖וֹר לְפֶ֣תַח תִּקְוָ֑ה וְעָ֤נְתָה שָּׁ֙מָּה֙ כִּימֵ֣י נְעוּרֶ֔יהָ וִּכְי֖וֹםעֲלֹתָ֥הּ מֵאֶֽרֶץ־מִצְרָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.will.give to her (et) vineyards her from there and (et) the.valley of.Achor to a.door of.hope and she.will.answer there (to) like the.days her.youth(s) her and like the.day she came.up from the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5911/): 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).