Strong's #5912: `Akan (pronounced aw-kawn')

from an unused root meaning to trouble; troublesome; Akan, an Israelite:--Achan. Compare 5917.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âkân

Achan = "troubler"

1) a Judaite who violated God' s specific ban on taking any loot from the captured city of Jericho and was stoned to death along with his family for this violation

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to trouble

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Joshua 7:1: "committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,"
Joshua 7:18: "his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,"
Joshua 7:19: "And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory"
Joshua 7:20: " And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned"
Joshua 7:24: "with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment,"
Joshua 22:20: "Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath"