Quick Definition
to trouble
Strong's Definition
properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: trouble, stir.
TWOT Reference: 1621
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָכַר (a.khar) — to trouble. 1) to trouble, stir up, disturb, make (someone) taboo 1a) (Qal) to disturb, trouble 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be disturbed, be stirred up 1b2) disturbance, calamity (participle)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עָכָר
Unsafe | verb qal
to cause trouble for (someone else) = causative action by which humans or deities bring misfortune and distress on human ◄ by one's behavior, whether or not intentionally
GEN 34:30 · JOS 6:18 · JOS 7:25 · JOS 7:25 · JDG 11:35 · 1SA 14:29 · 1KI 18:17 · 1KI 18:18 · 1CH 2:7 · PRO 11:17 · PRO 11:29 · PRO 15:27
Intense | verb nif
to grow worse, to increase (of someone's suffering) = process by which a condition grows in intensity
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עָכַר vb. stir up, disturb, trouble Qal disturb, trouble
Niph. my pain was stirred up
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