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# עָכַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5916

**stir up** — used 14 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

stir up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָכַר: vb. stir up, disturb, trouble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. stir up, disturb, trouble (NH id., make turbid; Arabic عَكِرَ be turbid);— Pf. 3 ms. ע׳ 1 S 14:29; 2 ms. sf. עֲכַרְתָּ֔נִי Jos 7:25, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַעְכָּרְךָ v 25; Pt. עֹכֵר 1 K 18:17 + 3 times, עוֹכֵר 1 Ch 2:7; pl. sf. עֹכְרָ֑י Ju 11:35;—disturb, trouble, c. acc. pers. Gn 34:30 (J), Jos 6:18; 7:25(×2) (all JE; v 25b subj. י׳), Ju 11:35; cf. Pr 11:17 (opp. גֹּמֵל), v 29; 15:27 (opp. חָיָה); ע׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 K 18:17, 18; 1 Ch 2:7 (cf. Jos 6:18 etc., supr.); ע׳ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ 1 S 14:29. Pf. 3 ms. וּכְאֵבִי נֶעְכָּ֑ר ψ 39:3 my pain was stirred up; Pt. f. נֶעְכָּ֑רֶת Pr 15:6 usually as n. abstr. disturbance, calamity, but וּתְבוּאַת רָשָׁע נִכְרָ֑ת\[ה\] the income of the wicked is cut off (Toy).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 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: I have troubled (1); O \[you who\] trouble (1); \[is\] trouble (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 39:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/#tree)

נֶאֱלַ֣מְתִּי ד֭וּמִיָּה הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִי מִטּ֑וֹב וּכְאֵבִ֥י נֶעְכָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* I.was.dumb silence I.was.silent from good and pain my it.was.stirred.up

*JPS 1917:* I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.

[Proverbs 15:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.6/#tree)

בֵּ֣ית צַ֭דִּיק חֹ֣סֶן רָ֑ב וּבִתְבוּאַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע נֶעְכָּֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* \[is.the\].house of.a.righteous.\[person\] wealth great and with.\[the\] income of.a.wicked.\[person\] \[is\].trouble

*JPS 1917:* In the house of the righteous is much treasure; but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5916/): 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).