(Valley of) Achor
עָכוֹרStrong’s H5911akhor (a-khor)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Akhor is the Hebrew word usually translated “achor”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.”
Meaning
- Combined with e.meq (עֵ֫מֶק " Valley" H6010)
How it's translated
- achor 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 7:26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
- Joshua 15:7And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
- Isaiah 65:10And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
- Hosea 2:15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hebrew dictionary
עָכוֹר akhor · (Valley of) Achor
Combined with e.meq (עֵ֫מֶק " Valley" H6010) the valley of trouble where Achan and his family were stoned This name means trouble, disturbance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “achor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
A'CHOR, noun
[Gr., sordes capitis.]
- The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions, supposed to be a critical evacuation of acrimonious humors; a species of herpes.
- In mythology, the God of flies, said to have been worshipped by the Cyreneans, to avoid being vexed by those insects.
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.