To trouble
עָכַרStrong’s H5916akhar (a-khar)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Akhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “have troubled”, “trouble” and “have you brought trouble to us”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.”
Meaning
- To trouble, stir up, disturb, make (someone) taboo(Qal) to disturb, trouble · (Niphal)
How it's translated
- you have troubled 1
- and you will trouble 1
- have you brought trouble to us 1
- he will bring trouble to you 1
- among trouble me 1
- he has troubled 1
- o troubles 1
- i have troubled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Joshua 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 6:18And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
- Joshua 7:25And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
- Judges 11:35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
- 1 Samuel 14:29Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- 1 Kings 18:17And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
- 1 Kings 18:18And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Hebrew dictionary
עָכַר akhar · to trouble
1) to trouble, stir up, disturb, make (someone) taboo 1a) (Qal) to disturb, trouble 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be disturbed, be stirred up 1b2) disturbance, calamity (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trouble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TROUBLE, verb transitive
trub'l. [Latin turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn. The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in Latin turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind. Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.
- To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.“An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water” John 5:4
- To disturb; to perplex.
- To afflict; to grieve; to distress.“Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved” Psalms 13:4
- To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.“Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things” Luke 10:41
All definitions and other forms of “trouble”
- To tease; to vex; to molest.
- To give occasion for labor to.
- To sue for a debt.
TROUBLE, noun
trub'l. Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.
- Affliction; calamity.“He shall deliver thee in six troubles” Job 5:19“Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles” Psalms 25:22
- Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance.
- Uneasiness; vexation.
- That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.
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.