Hebrew noun (feminine) · H254
אָח
achawkh
hearth
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 H254is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H254
a fire-pot or chafing dish
The King James renders it: hearth.
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 "hearth". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 36:22Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
Jeremiah 36:22הָאָ֖ח
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 Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the fire-pot3
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 | ah! | 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.
3 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
- הָאָ֖ח1
- הָאָ֑ח1
- הָאָֽח׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
Jeremiah
three uses
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
- הָאָ֖חhaachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fire-pot
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- הָאָ֑חhaachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fire-pot
- הָאָֽח׃haachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fire-pot
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.