Words

אַךְ H389

Home gloss

only

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

only / but / surely

Note

Restrictive (7:23; 9:4); asseverative "surely" by construction (9:5; 44:28). "Solely" is רַק's

Rulings

20, 33

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 7

• 7:23 And he wiped every standing thing that was on the face of the ground, from human to beast, to creeper and to the flyers of the skies; and they were wiped from the land; and there was left only Noah, and those with him in the box.

Genesis 9

• 9:4 Only flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.
• 9:5 And surely your blood, for your souls, I will inquire after; from the hand of every living thing I will inquire after it; and from the hand of the human, from the hand of a man, his brother, I will inquire after the soul of the human.