# H259 אֶחָד

אֶחָד (ʼechâd), Strong’s H259: properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first KJV: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each…. Occurs 967 times.

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*ʼechâd* — properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first

KJV: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each…

Derived from [אָחַד ʼâchad](https://besorah.bible/word/H258) (to unify)

Occurs 967 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֶחָד 972 adj.num. one
- 1 one
- 2 = each, every
- 3 = a certain
- 4 = indef. art.
- 5 only, & (fem.) once
- 6 one … another, one … the other
- 7 as ordinal first
- 8 in combin.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5) — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- [Genesis 1:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=9) — God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=11) — The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- [Genesis 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=21) — The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the…
- [Genesis 2:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=24) — Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- [Genesis 3:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=22) — The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand…
- [Genesis 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=19) — Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
- [Genesis 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=5) — The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of…
- [Genesis 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=13) — In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth…
- [Genesis 10:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=25) — To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name…