STRONGS NUMBER H254


Word Summary
ach: a firepot, brazier
Original Word: אָח
Transliteration: ach
Phonetic Spelling: (awkh)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a firepot, brazier
Meaning: a fire-pot, chafing dish
Strong's Concordance
hearth

Of uncertain derivation; a fire-pot or chafing dish -- hearth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H254. ach

II. אָח‎ see II. אחח‎.

II. אָחnoun feminine fire-pot, brasier (Arabic in Thes, is an error) is loan-word from Egyptian &las— according to WMMOLZ 3, 51; Jeremiah 36:22 read הָאָח וְאֵשׁ‎; always with article 36:22 מְבֹעָ֑רֶת ׳הַא לְפָנָיוthe brasier before him was burning; 36:23 אֶלהָֿא אֲשֶׁר ׳הָאֵשׁ‎; 36:23 עַלהָֿא אֲשֶׁר ׳הָאֵשׁ‎ (I. אָח‎, brother see below אחה‎; III. אָח‎ interjection, p. 25).