achar · trouble

What it means

achar (עָכַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “trouble”.

Bring trouble or disaster on someone; stir up.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To sink a family or people with an act that draws down disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• brought ruin on ×4
• troubles ×3
• trouble ×2
• among those who bring me ruin ×1
• bring ruin on it ×1
• one who brings ruin on ×1
• was stirred up ×1
• will bring ruin on you ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×4

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Joshua 6:18

  But you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, so that you do not devote them to destruction and then take from the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel a thing devoted to destruction and bring ruin on it.

• Joshua 7:25

  And Joshua said, “Why have you brought ruin on us? YHWH will bring ruin on you this day.” And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• Judges 11:35

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who bring me ruin. I have opened my mouth to YHWH, and I cannot turn back.”

• 1 Samuel 14:29

  Jonathan said, “My father has brought ruin on the land. See, please, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

• 1 Kings 18:17

  And it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “Is it you, the one who brings ruin on Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He said, “I have not brought ruin on Israel, but you and the house of your father have, in your abandoning the commandments of YHWH; and you have gone after the Baals.

• 1 Chronicles 2:7

  And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the one who brought ruin on Israel, who committed an act of unfaithfulness regarding the thing devoted to destruction.

• Psalms 39:2

  I became mute in silence; I kept quiet even from good, and my pain was stirred up.

• Proverbs 11:17

  A man of loyal love does good to his soul, but the cruel man troubles his body.

• Proverbs 11:29

  Whoever troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be a slave to the wise of heart.

• Proverbs 15:6

  In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the produce of the wicked is trouble.

• Proverbs 15:27

  Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his household, but whoever hates gifts will live.

And 1 more times.