אָח
ʼâch · H254 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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brazier
Portable container containing burning coals, used for heating
ExamplesJeremiah 36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.
Jeremiah 36:23 And when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- תַּנּוּר tannûwr · H8574 · oven
- Both lexemes denote heat-producing installations for cooking/burning and genuinely overlap in sense (both are types of furnaces/ovens, with "hearth" being a specific variety).
- כּוּר kûwr · H3564 · smelting furnace, kiln
- Both words denote heating or burning apparatus, a hearth and a furnace, with overlapping function as devices for fire and heat.
- כִּיר kîyr · H3600 · stove
- Both lexemes genuinely denote heating/cooking apparatus and share the specific "Furnaces" semantic field.
Semantic domains 7 entries
- Relatives001001003012
- This entry carries no independent “Relatives” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the noun for a hearth or brazier: “with a fire burning in the brazier before him” (Jeremiah 36:22). The domain is bundle-shared with the homographic kinship noun (אָח (ʼâch, H251)) and interjection (אָח (ʼâch, H253)).
- Friends001001003003
- This entry carries no independent “Friends” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the noun for a hearth or brazier: “with a fire burning in the brazier before him” (Jeremiah 36:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H253).
- Titles003001017
- This entry carries no independent “Titles” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the noun for a hearth or brazier: “with a fire burning in the brazier before him” (Jeremiah 36:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H253).
- Object Referents003001
- אָח as "hearth" names a physical object, the brazier in which Jehoiakim's scribe's knife cut the scroll before it was thrown into the fire (Jeremiah 36:23).
- Identifiers004003
- This entry carries no independent “Identifiers” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the noun for a hearth or brazier: “with a fire burning in the brazier before him” (Jeremiah 36:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H253).
- Evaluators004005
- This entry carries no independent “Evaluators” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the noun for a hearth or brazier: “with a fire burning in the brazier before him” (Jeremiah 36:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H253).
- Furnaces001003001001007
- The word most directly names the fire-pot or brazier itself, the winter-house heating vessel the king was sitting before when the scroll was read (Jeremiah 36:22).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H254. ach II. אָח see II. אחח. II. אָח noun feminine fire-pot, brasier (Arabic in Thes,…
II. אָח see II. אחח.
II. אָח noun feminine fire-pot, brasier (Arabic in Thes, is an error) is loan-word from Egyptian &las— according to WMMOLZ 3, 51; Jer 36:22 read הָאָח וְאֵשׁ; always with article Jer 36:22 מְבֹעָ֑רֶת ׳הַא לְפָנָיו the brasier before him was burning; Jer 36:23 אֶלהָֿא אֲשֶׁר ׳הָאֵשׁ; Jer 36:23 עַלהָֿא אֲשֶׁר ׳הָאֵשׁ (I. אָח, brother see below אחה; III. אָח interjection, p. 25).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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