עָכַר
ʻâkar · aw-kar'
properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict
- properly, to roil water
- figuratively, to disturb or affict
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: trouble, stir.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
To see and know of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָכַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- troubleth2 · 14%
- ye have troubled1 · 7%
- and trouble1 · 7%
- hast thou troubled1 · 7%
- shall trouble1 · 7%
- and thou art one of them that trouble1 · 7%
- hath troubled1 · 7%
- unto him, art thou he that troubleth1 · 7%
- i have not troubled1 · 7%
- the troubler1 · 7%
- was stirred1 · 7%
- he that troubleth1 · 7%
- is trouble1 · 7%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.