אַךְ
akh
1. indeed, surely (emphatic)
2. howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 157 verses
- Judges 20:39 אַךְ֩
the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
- 1 Samuel 1:23 אַ֛ךְ
“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
- 1 Samuel 8:9 אַ֗ךְ
Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
- 1 Samuel 12:20 אַ֗ךְ
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
- 1 Samuel 12:24 אַ֣ךְ׀
Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
- 1 Samuel 16:6 אַ֛ךְ
When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”
- 1 Samuel 18:8 אַ֥ךְ
And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
- 1 Samuel 18:17 אַ֚ךְ
Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
- 1 Samuel 20:39 אַ֤ךְ
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
- 1 Samuel 21:4 אַ֥ךְ
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
- 1 Samuel 25:21 אַךְ֩
Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
- 1 Samuel 29:9 אַ֣ךְ
Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- 2 Samuel 2:10 אַ֚ךְ
Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
- 2 Samuel 3:13 אַ֣ךְ
“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
- 2 Samuel 23:10 אַךְ־
but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
- 1 Kings 9:24 אַ֣ךְ
As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
- 1 Kings 11:12 אַךְ־
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 11:39 אַ֖ךְ
Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
- 1 Kings 17:13 אַ֣ךְ
“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,
- 1 Kings 22:32 אַ֣ךְ
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely this is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
- 1 Kings 22:43 אַ֥ךְ
And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 2 Kings 5:7 אַךְ־
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
- 2 Kings 12:13 אַךְ֩
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 13:6 אַ֠ךְ
Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 18:20 אַךְ־
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
- 2 Kings 22:7 אַ֚ךְ
But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
- 2 Kings 23:9 אַ֗ךְ
Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
- 2 Kings 23:26 אַ֣ךְ׀
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
- 2 Kings 23:35 אַ֚ךְ
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
- 2 Kings 24:3 אַ֣ךְ׀
Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
- 1 Chronicles 22:12 אַ֣ךְ
Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.
- 2 Chronicles 20:33 אַ֥ךְ
The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 30:11 אַךְ־
Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
- Ezra 10:15 אַ֣ךְ
(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
- Job 2:6 אַ֖ךְ
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
- Job 13:15 אַךְ־
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 13:20 אַךְ־
Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
- Job 14:22 אַךְ־
He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
- Job 16:7 אַךְ־
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
- Job 18:21 אַךְ־
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- Job 19:13 אַךְ־
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- Job 23:6 אַךְ־
Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
- Job 30:24 אַ֣ךְ
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
- Job 33:8 אַ֭ךְ
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
- Job 35:13 אַךְ־
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
- Psalms 23:6 אַ֤ךְ׀
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Psalms 37:8 אַךְ־
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
- Psalms 39:5 אַ֥ךְ
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 39:6 אַךְ־אַךְ־
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 39:11 אַ֤ךְ
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah