Word Study · Strong's H5911 · Hebrew
עָכוֹר
Akor
aw-kore'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻÂkôwr
“Akor, the name of a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Akor, the name of a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Achor.
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- עָכ֖וֹר2
- עָכ֔וֹר1
- עָכוֹר֒1
- עָכֽוֹר׃1
How it is rendered · 1
- Achor5
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)5
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- HNpl · 5
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Where this word lives
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Joshua3 occurrences
- Joshua 7:24עָכֽוֹר׃akhorproper noun (a name)Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.here: Achor
- Joshua 7:26עָכ֔וֹרakhorproper noun (a name)And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.here: Achor
- Joshua 15:7עָכוֹר֒ʾakhorproper noun (a name)Then the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to Gilgal, which faces the Ascent of Adummim south of the ravine. It continued along the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel.here: Achor