Hebrew intj · H253
אָח
achawkh
ah!
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâch
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H253is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H253
Oh! (expressive of grief or surprise)
The King James renders it: ah, alas.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ach is rendered "ah!". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezekiel 6:11This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
Ezekiel 6:11אָ֔ח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- alas3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָח | ach | brother: male-sibling | Uses630 |
| אָחוֹת | achoth | sister | Uses114 |
| אָחַז | achaz | to grasp | Uses67 |
| אָחוֹר | achor | back | Uses41 |
| אָחַר | achar | to delay | Uses17 |
| אָח | ach | hearth | Uses3 |
| אָחוּ | achu | meadow | Uses3 |
| אָחַד | achad | to go either way | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָ֔ח2
- אָ֛ח1
The grammar of each form
- interjection3HTj
Ezekiel
three uses
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
- אָ֔חʾachinterjectiontagged: alas
Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
- אָ֔חʾachinterjectiontagged: alas
So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
- אָ֛חʾachinterjectiontagged: alas
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.