TBESH · H0389
אַךְ · akh · surely
1) indeed, surely (emphatic) 2) howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)
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akh H389
אַךְ (akh) means “surely” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אַךְ Hebrew · H389 161 tagged occurrences in 157 verses
Pronunciation guide: ak Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
akin to H403 (אָכֵן); a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
KJV glosses: also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, [phrase] wherefore, yet (but).
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How translators render H389
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| but | 30 |
| surely | 24 |
| only | 11 |
| nevertheless | 7 |
| however | 6 |
| indeed | 6 |
| alone | 4 |
| yet | 4 |
| but only | 3 |
| above all | 2 |
| just | 2 |
| leads only | 2 |
| nothing but | 2 |
| vvv | 2 |
| although | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and only | 1 |
| and surely | 1 |
| are but | 1 |
| are mere | 1 |
| are only | 1 |
| are surely | 1 |
| as soon as | 1 |
| as surely | 1 |
| belongs only | 1 |
| but you must only | 1 |
| complete | 1 |
| even | 1 |
| had just | 1 |
| have done nothing but | 1 |
| he feels only | 1 |
| i will still | 1 |
| is indeed | 1 |
| is really | 1 |
| it can only | 1 |
| just after | 1 |
| on one | 1 |
| on those days | 1 |
| once more | 1 |
| one more time | 1 |
| provided | 1 |
| there is surely | 1 |
| they fully | 1 |
| they will surely | 1 |
| though | 1 |
| truly | 1 |
| will surely lead | 1 |
| would certainly | 1 |
| you who are utterly | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| notwithstanding | 2 |
| also | 1 |
| and surely | 1 |
| and they had but | 1 |
| behold of a surety | 1 |
| but | 1 |
| certainly | 1 |
| even | 1 |
| howbeit | 1 |
| in them save | 1 |
| nevertheless | 1 |
| not thyself in any wise | 1 |
| only | 1 |
| themselves at least | 1 |
| to him surely | 1 |
| truly | 1 |
| verily | 1 |
| was yet | 1 |
| wherefore | 1 |
| with them but yet | 1 |
| yet | 1 |
Verses containing H389
Page 2 of 4. 157 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Judges 20:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now listen to their voice; but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 12:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 12:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 21:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.5
- 1 Samuel 25:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 3:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 23:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 9:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely this is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 12:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.14
- 2 Kings 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
Read word by word - 2 Kings 22:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 22:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 20:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 30:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
Read word by word - Ezra 10:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
Read word by word - Job 2:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
Read word by word - Job 13:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
Read word by word - Job 13:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
Read word by word - Job 14:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
Read word by word - Job 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Read word by word - Job 18:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Read word by word - Job 19:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
Read word by word - Job 23:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
Read word by word - Job 30:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Read word by word - Job 33:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
Read word by word - Job 35:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Read word by word - Psalms 23:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Read word by word - Psalms 37:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
Read word by word - Psalms 39:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 39.6
- Psalms 39:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 39.7
- Psalms 39:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 39.12