Akar means “trouble” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5916 עָכַר (`akar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `akar (aw-kar') v. 1. (properly) to roil water 2. (figuratively) to disturb or affict It has 13 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include trouble and have. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`akar (aw-kar') v. 1. (properly) to roil water 2. (figuratively) to disturb or affict [a primitive root] KJV: trouble, stir.
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to trouble
Usage: 1) to trouble, stir up, disturb, make (someone) taboo 1a) (Qal) to disturb, trouble 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be disturbed, be stirred up 1b2) disturbance, calamity (participle)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `akar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5916.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
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Akar (Strong's H5916) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "trouble". `akar (aw-kar') v. 1. (properly) to roil water 2. (figuratively) to disturb or affict
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H5916 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5916 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as trouble and have. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.