Explanation
אַחֲוָיָהStrong’s H0263achavah (a-cha-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Achavah is the Aramaic word usually translated “declaring of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Declaration, a declaring
How it's translated
- and declaring of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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אַחֲוָיָה achavah · explanation
declaration, a declaring Aramaic of ach.vah (אַחְוָה "declaration" H0262)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “explanation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXPLANA'TION, noun
[Latin explanatio.]
The act of explaining, expounding or interpreting; exposition; illustration; interpretation; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
- The sense given by an expounder or interpreter.
- A mutual exposition of terms, meaning or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding and reconcile differences.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.