# H5916 עָכַר

עָכַר (ʻâkar), Strong’s H5916: properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict KJV: trouble, stir.. Occurs 14 times.

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*ʻâkar* — properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict

KJV: trouble, stir.

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָכַר vb. stir up, disturb, trouble
- Qal disturb, trouble
- Niph. my pain was stirred up

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30) — Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…
- [Joshua 6:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=18) — But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of…
- [Joshua 7:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=25) — Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they…
- [Judges 11:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/11?v=35) — When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of…
- [1 Samuel 14:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/14?v=29) — Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little…
- [1 Kings 18:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=17) — When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
- [1 Kings 18:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=18) — He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the LORD’s…
- [Psalms 39:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=3) — I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
- [Proverbs 11:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/11?v=17) — The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
- [Proverbs 11:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/11?v=29) — He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.