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Hebrew intj · H305

אַחֲלַי

achalayakh-al-ah'ee

O that!

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼachălay

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H305is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H305

would that!

The King James renders it: O that, would God.

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

achalay is rendered "O that!". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 5:3She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5:3אַחֲלֵ֣י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in 2 Kings.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • would that2

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.

אַחֲרִיתacharithendUses61
אַחֲרוֹןacharonlastUses51
אַחֲוָהachavahexplanationUses1
אַחֲוָהachavahbrotherhoodUses1
אַחֲרִיתacharithlatterUses1

All 2, 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

  • אַחֲלֵ֣י1
  • אַ֭חֲלַי1

The grammar of each form

  • interjection2HTj

2 Kings

one use
  • She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”

    2 Kings 5:3

    • אַחֲלֵ֣יʾachaleiinterjectiontagged: would that

Psalms

one use
  • Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

    Psalms 119:5

    • אַ֭חֲלַיʾachalaiinterjectiontagged: would that

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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