Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H389

אַךְ

akh · “surely”

Used 161 times across 25 books

Definition

1) indeed, surely (emphatic)
2) howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)

Where it appears

Genesis

14

Exodus

5

Leviticus

8

Numbers

11

Deuteronomy

5

Joshua

2

Judges

6

1 Samuel

11

2 Samuel

3

1 Kings

6

2 Kings

9

1 Chronicles

1

2 Chronicles

2

Ezra

1

Job

11

Psalms

24

Proverbs

7

Isaiah

10

Jeremiah

15

Lamentations

2

Ezekiel

1

Hosea

3

Jonah

1

Zephaniah

2

Zechariah

1

In the text

Genesis 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Genesis 9:5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.Genesis 18:32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.Genesis 20:12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.Genesis 23:13And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.Genesis 26:9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.Genesis 27:13And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.Genesis 27:30And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.Genesis 29:14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

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