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The meaning of עָכוֹר

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Definition

Achor. - Akor, the name of a place in Palestine 1) trouble, disturbance 1a) Achor-as the valley of trouble where Achan a...

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עָכוֹר

Phoneticaw-kore'
TransliterationʻÂkôwr
Grammar Code
N:N--L
Noun
Strong's Definition
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Achor. - Akor, the name of a place in Palestine 1) trouble, disturbance 1a) Achor-as the valley of trouble where Achan and his family were stoned

Scripture References

Occurrences in the Bible

5 total references
ReferenceText
Joshua 7:24

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.

Word: עָכוֹר (ʻÂkôwr)
Joshua 7:26

And 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.

Word: עָכוֹר (ʻÂkôwr)
Joshua 15:7

And 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 En–shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En–rogel:

Word: עָכוֹר (ʻÂkôwr)
Isaiah 65:10

And 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.

Word: עָכוֹר (ʻÂkôwr)
Hosea 2:15

And 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.

Word: עָכוֹר (ʻÂkôwr)

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