Surely
אַךְStrong’s H0389akh
Appears in 157 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Akh is the Hebrew word usually translated “only”, “surely” and “nevertheless”. It appears in 157 verses of the Old Testament.
“But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.”
Meaning
- Indeed, surely (emphatic)
- Howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)
How it's translated
- only 73
- surely 50
- nevertheless 34
- and nevertheless 1
- and only 1
- and surely 1
- just as 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 22
- Genesis 14
- Jeremiah 14
- Numbers 11
- 1 Samuel 11
- Job 11
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Genesis 9:5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
- Genesis 18:32And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Genesis 20:12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 23:13And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
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Hebrew dictionary
אַךְ akh · surely
1) indeed, surely (emphatic) 2) howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “surely” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SU'RELY, adverb
Certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly.
- “In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die” Genesis 2:17
- Firmly; without danger of falling.“He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely” Proverbs 10:9
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.