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אֶחָדStrong’s H0259

echad (e-chad)

Appears in 740 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Echad is the Hebrew word usually translated “one”, “on one” and “one of”. It appears in 740 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.”
Daniel 1:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. One (number)each, every · a certain · an (indefinite article) · only, once, once for all · one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one · first · eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)
How it's translated
  • one 768
  • the one 43
  • and one 40
  • on one 20
  • one of 17
  • to one 17
  • in one of 13
  • like one of 8

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 122
  • Ezekiel 74
  • Exodus 69
  • 1 Kings 51
  • Genesis 43
  • Leviticus 37

34 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 740 verses, by book
Ruth 2
1:42:13
Proverbs 2
1:1428:18
Song of Solomon 2
4:96:9
Hosea 1
1:11
Amos 3
4:74:86:9
Obadiah 1
1:11
Jonah 1
3:4
Zephaniah 1
3:9
Haggai 3
1:12:12:6
Malachi 2
2:102:15
Hebrew dictionary

אֶחָד echad · one

1) one (number) 1a) one (number) 1b) each, every 1c) a certain 1d) an (indefinite article) 1e) only, once, once for all 1f) one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one 1g) first 1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

ONE, adjective

wun. [Latin unus; Gr.]

  1. Single in number; individual; as one man; one book.
  2. Indefinitely, some or any.
  3. It follows any.“When any one heareth the word of the kingdom” Matthew 13:19
  4. Different; diverse; opposed to another.
All definitions
  1. It is used with another, to denote mutuality or reciprocation.
  2. It is used with another, to denote average or mean proportion.
  3. one of two; opposed to other.“Ask from one side of heaven to the other” Deuteronomy 4:32
  4. Single by union; undivided; the same.
  5. Single in kind; the same.“ONE plague was on you all and on your lords” 1 Samuel 6:4
  6. one day, on a certain or particular day, referring to time past.
  7. Referring to future time; at a future time, indefinitely. [See one No. 2.]“Ye are all one in Christ Jesus” Galatians 3:28

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.