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Lexicon :: Strong's H389 - 'aḵ

Aa
אַךְ
Transliteration
'aḵ
Pronunciation
ak
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 84

Strong’s Definitions

אַךְ ʼak, ak; akin to H403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only:—also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet (but).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H389 in the following manner: also, but, certainly, even, howbeit, least, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, scarce, surely, surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H389 in the following manner: also, but, certainly, even, howbeit, least, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, scarce, surely, surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet.

  1. indeed, surely (emphatic)

  2. howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַךְ ʼak, ak; akin to H403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only:—also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, wherefore, yet (but).
STRONGS H389: Abbreviations
אַךְ 159 adverb (perhaps from the same demonstrative, root found also in כִּי, כֹּה, כֵּן).
1. surely.
2. with a restrictive force, emphasizing what follows:
a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit;
b. in contrast with other ideas generally, only.
1. asseverative, often introducing with emphasis the expression of a truth (or supposed truth) newly perceived, especially in colloquial language, surely, no doubt (doch wohl); Genesis 26:9 אַךְ הִנֵּה אִשְׁתְּךָ הִוא of a surety, lo, she is thy wife ! Genesis 29:14; Genesis 44:28; Judges 3:24; Judges 20:39; 1 Samuel 16:6 surely the anointed of י׳ is before him ! 1 Samuel 25:21; Jeremiah 5:4; Psalm 58:12; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 73:13; but also in other cases, though rarely, Isaiah 34:14, 15; Zephaniah 3:7; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 139:11; Psalm 140:14; Job 16:7; Job 18:21; & rather singularly Exodus 12:15; Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 23:27, 39 (all P).
2. restrictive:
a. in contrast to what precedes, howbeit, yet, but : Genesis 9:4 howbeit, flesh with the life thereof... ye shall not eat, Genesis 20:12; Exodus 21:21; Leviticus 21:23; Leviticus 27:26; Numbers 18:15, 17; 2 Samuel 3:13; Jeremiah 10:24 correct me, בְּמִשְׁפָּט אַךְ but with judgment, Job 2:6; Job 13:15; sometimes with an adversative force, as Isaiah 14:15; Isaiah 43:24; before an imperative (minimizing the request), Genesis 23:13 only, if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me ! Genesis 27:13; Judges 10:15; 1 Samuel 18:17; 1 Kings 17:13 and elsewhere So 1 Samuel 8:9 אַךְ כִּי (see כִּי; and compare πλὴν ὅτι).
b. in contrast to other ideas generally : —
(α) Genesis 7:23; Genesis 18:32 אַךְ הַפַּעַם only this once (so Exodus 10:17 and elsewhere) Exodus 34:15; Exodus 12:16 (note accents), 1 Samuel 18:8 וְעוֺד לוֺ אַךְ תַמְּלוּכָה and there yet remains for him only the kingdom, 1 Samuel 21:5; Isaiah 45:14 אַךָ בְּךָ אֵל only in thee is God! Psalm 62:2 etc. Job 14:22; Psalm 37:8 fret not thyself אַךְ לְהָרֵעַ (which leadeth) only to do evil, Proverbs 11:24 he that withholdeth more than is meet אַךְ לְמַחְסוֺר (tendeth) only to penury, Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 21:5; Proverbs 22:16;
(β) attaching itself closely to the following word (usually an adjective, rarely a verb), only, i.e. exclusively, altogether, utterly Deuteronomy 16:15 and thou shalt be אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ altogether rejoicing, Deuteronomy 28:29 (compare Deuteronomy 28:33 רַק) Isaiah 16:7 אַךְ נְכָאִים utterly stricken, Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 16:19 nought but lies, Jeremiah 32:30; Hosea 12:12; Job 19:13 אַךְ זָרוּ are wholly estranged (with play on אַכְזָר cruel).
c. as an adverb of time (with infinitive absolute), twice: Genesis 27:30 בָּא וְעֵשָׂו⬩⬩⬩יַצֲקֹב יָצָא יָצא אַךְ only just (or scarcely) had Jacob gone out,... and (= when) Esau came in, Judges 7:19. — וְאַח thrice : Genesis 9:5 and only (second limitation of Genesis 9:3); Numbers 22:20 but only; Joshua 22:19 but howbeit.
Note. — In some passages the affirmative and restrictive senses agree equally with the context; and authorities read the Hebrew differently. Thus only = nought but, altogether, is adopted by Ges Ew Hi De in Psalm 23:6; Psalm 62:10; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 73:13; by Ew Hi De in Psalm 39:6; Psalm 39:7 (Che surely); by Ges Ew De in Psalm 39:12 (but Hi Che surely); by Ew Hi in Psalm 73:18 (De Che surely); by Ges Hi De in Psalm 139:11 (Ew doch). Isaiah 45:14 Ges Ew Hi Di only; but De Che of a truth.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:23; 9:3; 9:4; 9:5; 18:32; 20:12; 23:13; 26:9; 27:13; 27:30; 29:14; 44:28

Exodus

10:17; 12:15; 12:16; 21:21; 31:13; 34:15

Leviticus

21:23; 23:27; 23:39; 27:26

Numbers

18:15; 18:17; 22:20

Deuteronomy

16:15; 28:29; 28:33

Joshua

22:19

Judges

3:24; 7:19; 10:15; 20:39

1 Samuel

8:9; 16:6; 18:8; 18:17; 21:5; 25:21

2 Samuel

3:13

1 Kings

17:13

Job

2:6; 13:15; 14:22; 16:7; 18:21; 19:13

Psalms

23:6; 23:6; 37:8; 39:6; 39:7; 39:12; 62:2; 62:10; 73:1; 73:1; 73:13; 73:13; 73:18; 139:11; 139:11

Proverbs

11:24; 14:23; 21:5; 22:16

Isaiah

14:15; 16:7; 19:11; 34:14; 34:15; 43:24; 45:14; 45:14

Jeremiah

5:4; 10:24; 16:19; 32:30

Hosea

12:12

Zephaniah

3:7

H389

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Strong's Number H389 matches the Hebrew אַךְ ('aḵ),
which occurs 161 times in 157 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jdg 20:39–Psa 39:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - whereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel. For they said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - So Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him. Only let the LORD establish His[fn] word.” Then the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9 - “Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - Then Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:24 - “Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:6 - So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before Him!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:17 - Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:39 - But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew of the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - And the priest answered David and said, “There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9 - Then Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are as good in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10 - Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. Only the house of Judah followed David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:13 - And David said, “Good, I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you: you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:10 - He arose and attacked the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - But Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon[fn] had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12 - “Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:39 - ‘And I will afflict the descendants of David because of this, but not forever.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32 - So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “Surely it is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the LORD. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - However there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, trimmers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the money brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the wooden image[fn] also remained in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - “You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:7 - “However there need be no accounting made with them of the money delivered into their hand, because they deal faithfully.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give money according to the command of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12 - “Only may the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:33 - Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:11 - Nevertheless some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:15 - Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite gave them support.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:15 - Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20 - “Only two things do not do to me,
Then I will not hide myself from You:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 - But his flesh will be in pain over it,
And his soul will mourn over it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now He has worn me out;
You have made desolate all my company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21 - Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - “He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:6 - Would He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:24 - “Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins,
If they cry out when He destroys it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:8 - “Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
And I have heard the sound of your words, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - Surely God will not listen to empty talk,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell[fn] in the house of the LORD
Forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
Do not fret—it only causes harm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5 - Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:6 - Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 - When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

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1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 7:23–Jdg 16:28

2. Currently on page 2/4 (Jdg 20:39–Psa 39:11) Jdg 20:39–Psa 39:11

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Psa 49:15–Eze 46:17

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Hos 4:4–Zec 1:6

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