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# עַכְסָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5915

**Achsah** — 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

Achsah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5915/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַכְסָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5915/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. daughter of Caleb Jos 15:16, 17 (JE) = Ju 1:12, 13; 1 Ch 2:49, Ασχα, Αχσα, Αζα, Οξα.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.49/#tree)

וַתֵּ֗לֶד שַׁ֚עַף אֲבִ֣י מַדְמַנָּ֔ה אֶת־שְׁוָ֛א אֲבִ֥י מַכְבֵּנָ֖ה וַאֲבִ֣י גִבְעָ֑א וּבַת־כָּלֵ֖ב עַכְסָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and she.bore Shaaph the.father of.Madmannah (et) Sheva the.father of.Machbenah and the.father of.Gibea and.\[was\] the.daughter of.Caleb Achsah

*JPS 1917:* And the wife of Shaaph the father of Madmannah bore Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

[Joshua 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.17/#tree)

וַֽיִּלְכְּדָ֛הּ עָתְנִיאֵ֥ל בֶּן־קְנַ֖ז אֲחִ֣י כָלֵ֑ב וַיִּתֶּן־ל֛וֹ אֶת־עַכְסָ֥ה בִתּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and he captured.it Othniel the.son of.Kenaz the.brother of.Caleb and he.gave to him (et) Achsah daughter his to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5915.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5915/): 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).