Strong's #403: 'aken (pronounced aw-kane')
from 3559 (compare 3651); firmly; figuratively, surely; also (advers.) but:--but, certainly, nevertheless, surely, truly, verily.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âkên
1) surely, truly, indeed
1a) truly, indeed (strong assertive force)
1b) but indeed, but in fact (emphasizing a contrast)
Part of Speech: adverb
Relation: from H3559 [compare H3651]
Usage:
This word is used 18 times:
Genesis 28:16: "awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this"
Exodus 2:14: "And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known."
1 Samuel 15:32: "him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past."
1 Kings 11:2: "to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after"
Job 32:8: " But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration giveth them understanding."
Psalms 31:22: "I am cut off thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications"
Psalms 66:19: " But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended of my prayer."
Psalms 82:7: " But ye shall die like men, and fall of the princes."
Isaiah 40:7: "the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass."
Isaiah 45:15: " Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, of Israel, the Savior."
Isaiah 49:4: "my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work"
Isaiah 53:4: " Surely he hath borne our griefs, our sorrows: yet we did esteem"
Jeremiah 3:20: " Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house"
Jeremiah 3:23: " Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude truly in the LORD"
Jeremiah 3:23: "is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude truly in the LORD our God is the salvation"
Jeremiah 4:10: "I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people"
Jeremiah 8:8: "of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes"
Zephaniah 3:7: "be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted"
