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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - עָכָן

עָכָן

H5912

Transliteration: ʻÂkân

Pronunciation: aw-kawn'

Definition: Achan


Original: עכן

Transliteration: ‛âkân

Phonetic: aw-kawn'

BDB Definition:

Achan = "troubler"
  1. a Judaite who violated God's specific ban on taking any loot from the captured city of Jericho and was stoned to death along with his family for this violation

Origin: from an unused root meaning to trouble

TWOT entry: None

Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine


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