אָסוֹן
ʼâçôwn · H611 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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accident, harm
Unfortunate event, resulting in physical harm or injury
ExamplesGenesis 42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm may happen to him.”
Genesis 42:38 But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Genesis 44:29 ‘If you also take this one from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
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
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
- קָרָאto meet, to happen 2
- קָרָהto happen 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 2 words
- רַע raʻ · H7451 · bad, evil, wicked
- Common Hebrew noun for evil or calamity that overlaps semantically with אָסוֹן in contexts of harm or disaster befalling someone; both denote injurious events
- אֵיד ʼêyd · H343 · calamity, destruction
- Hebrew noun denoting calamity or disaster, semantically parallel to אָסוֹן as a term for serious misfortune or harm
Contrasting words 2 words
- שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm · H7965 · completely, wholly, peace
- Hebrew noun denoting peace, safety, and well-being, the lexical opposite of mischief/calamity (אָסוֹן) which denotes harm and danger
- טוֹב ṭôwb · H2896 · good, nice, beautiful
- Hebrew noun (feminine form of טוֹב) meaning good or welfare, the semantic opposite of mischief or harm
In the other Testament 1 word
- κακός kakós · G2556 · bad, evil, harmful
- Greek noun (neuter of κακός) meaning evil or harm, frequently used in LXX to translate Hebrew terms for calamity and mischief
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אָסוֹן names harm or mischief, as Jacob's fear that harm might befall Benjamin on the journey to Egypt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H611. ason אָסוֺן noun masculine mischief, evil, harm; always absolute without article…
אָסוֺן noun masculine mischief, evil, harm; always absolute without article Gen 42:4, Gen 42:38 (as subject of קרא), Gen 44:29 (קרה), Exo 21:22-23, (היה).
אָסוּךָ see סוך.
אסם (gather, store, Aramaic ).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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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