Strong's #389: 'ak (pronounced ak)
akin to 403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only:--also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, + wherefore, yet (but).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'ak
1) indeed, surely (emphatic)
2) howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)
Part of Speech: adverb
Relation: akin to H403
Usage:
This word is used 160 times:
Lamentations 2:16: "the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for;"
Lamentations 3:3: " Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Ezekiel 46:17: "his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be"
Hosea 4:4: " Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people"
Hosea 12:8: "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors"
Hosea 12:11: "Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;"
Jonah 2:4: "I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward"
Zephaniah 1:18: "by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of"
Zephaniah 3:7: "I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,"
Zechariah 1:6: " But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets,"
