Usually translated as
only, surely, but, yet, nevertheless, notwithstanding, verily, howbeit, also, even, truly, in any wise, at least, certainly, save, of a surety, wherefore
Occurrences
ʼak occurs 160 times in 156 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (14), Exodus (5), Leviticus (8), Numbers (11), Deuteronomy (5), Joshua (2), Judges (6), 1 Samuel (11), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (6), 2 Kings (9), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1), Job (11), Psalms (22), Proverbs (5), Isaiah (10), Jeremiah (14), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (3), Jonah (1), Zephaniah (2), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only (אַךְ) remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 9:4 — But (אַךְ) flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Genesis 9:5 — And surely (וְאַ֨ךְ) your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
- Genesis 18:32 — And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet (אַךְ) but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Genesis 20:12 — And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but (אַ֖ךְ) not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 23:13 — And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But (אַ֛ךְ) if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
- Genesis 26:9 — And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety (אַ֣ךְ) she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
- Genesis 27:13 — And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only (אַ֛ךְ) obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
- Genesis 27:30 — And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet (אַ֣ךְ) scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 29:14 — And Laban said to him, Surely (אַ֛ךְ) thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
- Genesis 34:15 — But (אַךְ) in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
- Genesis 34:22 — Only (אַךְ) herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 34:23 — Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only (אַ֚ךְ) let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
- Genesis 44:28 — And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely (אַ֖ךְ) he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
- Exodus 10:17 — Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only (אַ֣ךְ) this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
- Exodus 12:15 — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even (אַ֚ךְ) the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16 — And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save (אַ֚ךְ) that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
- Exodus 21:21 — Notwithstanding (אַ֥ךְ), if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
- Exodus 31:13 — Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily (אַ֥ךְ) my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
- Leviticus 11:4 — Nevertheless (אַ֤ךְ) these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:21 — Yet (אַ֤ךְ) these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
- Leviticus 11:36 — Nevertheless (אַ֣ךְ) a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 21:23 — Only (אַ֣ךְ) he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
- Leviticus 23:27 — Also (אַ֡ךְ) on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 23:39 — Also (אַ֡ךְ) in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
- Leviticus 27:26 — Only (אַךְ) the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD’s.
- Leviticus 27:28 — Notwithstanding (אַךְ) no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
- Numbers 1:49 — Only (אַ֣ךְ) thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
- Numbers 12:2 — And they said, Hath the LORD indeed (אַךְ) spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
- Numbers 14:9 — Only (אַ֣ךְ) rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
- Numbers 18:3 — And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only (אַךְ֩) they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
- Numbers 18:15 — Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless (אַ֣ךְ) the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
- Numbers 18:17 — But (אַ֣ךְ) the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Numbers 22:20 — And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet (וְאַ֗ךְ) the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
- Numbers 26:55 — Notwithstanding (אַךְ) the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
- Numbers 31:22 — Only (אַ֥ךְ) the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Numbers 31:23 — Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless (אַ֕ךְ) it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
- Numbers 36:6 — This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only (אַ֗ךְ) to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
- Deuteronomy 12:22 — Even (אַ֗ךְ) as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:7 — Nevertheless (אַ֣ךְ) these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
- Deuteronomy 16:15 — Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely (אַ֥ךְ) rejoice.
- Deuteronomy 18:20 — But (אַ֣ךְ) the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
- Deuteronomy 28:29 — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only (אַ֣ךְ) oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Joshua 3:4 — Yet (אַ֣ךְ) there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 22:19 — Notwithstanding (וְאַ֨ךְ), if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
- Judges 3:24 — When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely (אַ֣ךְ) he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
- Judges 6:39 — And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but (אַ֣ךְ) this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 7:19 — So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but (אַ֛ךְ) newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
- Judges 10:15 — And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only (אַ֛ךְ), we pray thee, this day.
- Judges 16:28 — And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only (אַ֣ךְ) this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.