Hebrew word · H6130

עֲקָן

va'akan

Akan

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.27;

son of: Ezer (H0687);

brother of: Bilhan (H1092) and Zaavan (H2190)

Another spelling of ya.a.qan (יַעֲקָן "Akan" H3292)

§ Akan = "sharp-sighted"

son of Ezer, descendant of Seir, and one of the chiefs of the Horites of Edom

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

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 36:27 וַעֲקָֽן׃ and Akan

    These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

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