Hebrew word · H5917
עָכָר
'akhar
Achan
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man of the tribe of Judah living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jos.7.1;
son of: Carmi (H3756H)
Another spelling of a.khan (עָכָן "Achan" H5912)
§ Achar = "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
1a) alternate spelling for 'Achan'
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 2:7 עָכָר֙ Achar
The son of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban on devoted things.
Here: This is the man called Achan in Joshua 7. In this spelling the name sounds exactly like the verb right after it, so the name itself announces what he did: 'Trouble, who troubled Israel.'
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.