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# עָכָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5912

**Achan. Compare** — used 6 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

Achan. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5912/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָכָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5912/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. man of Judah;—Jos 7:1 (P), v 18, 19, 20, 24 (JE), 22:20 (P); = עָכָר 1 Ch 2:7 (from עָבוֹר Jos 7:26, v. also עָכָר); Αχαρ, Αχαν.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Achan (6).

## In the verses

[Joshua 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.18/#tree)

וַיַּקְרֵ֥ב אֶת־בֵּית֖וֹ לַגְּבָרִ֑ים וַיִּלָּכֵ֗ד עָכָ֞ן בֶּן־כַּרְמִ֧י בֶן־זַבְדִּ֛י בֶּן־זֶ֖רַח לְמַטֵּ֥ה יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.near (et) household his to the men and he.was.taken.by.lot Achan the.son of.Carmi the.son of.Zabdi the.son of.Zerah of the.tribe of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* And he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

[Joshua 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.20/#tree)

וַיַּ֧עַן עָכָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אָמְנָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֤י חָטָ֙אתִי֙ לַֽיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְכָזֹ֥את וְכָזֹ֖את עָשִֽׂיתִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Achan (et) Joshua and he.said truly I I.have.sinned to Yahweh the.God of.Israel and like this and like this I.have.done

*JPS 1917:* And Achan answered Joshua, and said: 'Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5912.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5912/): 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).