Hebrew

Hearth

אָחStrong’s H0254

ach

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ach is the Hebrew word usually translated “fire-pot”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.”

Jeremiah 36:22 KJV

Meaning

Fire-pot, brazier

How it's translated

the fire-pot 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Jeremiah 36:23And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Hebrew dictionary

אָח ach · hearth

fire-pot, brazier

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “hearth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HE'ARTH, noun

harth. A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.