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Wiktionary

  1. achornoun

    dandruff (or similar condition)

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ACHORnoun

    A species of the herpes; it appears with a crusty scab, which causes an itching on the surface of the head, occasioned by a salt sharp serum oozing through the skin. John Quincy

    Etymology: achor, Lat. ἀχὼϱ Gr. furfur.

Wikipedia

  1. Achor

    Achor (Hebrew: עכור "muddy, turbid: gloomy, dejected") is the name of a valley in the vicinity of Jericho.

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  1. Achor

    Achor is the name of a valley in the vicinity of Jericho. Eusebius and Jerome implied that they thought it was a valley north of Jericho. In the nineteenth century some writers identified the valley with the wadi al-Qelt, a deep ravine located to Jericho's south. In the twentieth century the Hyrcania valley west and south of Qumran, and Wadi en-Nu'eima have also been suggested. One difficulty is that the narrative of Joshua 7 appears to place the valley of Achor to the north of Jericho, between Jericho and Ai; but Joshua 15:7 makes the valley part of the boundary between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, to the south of Jericho, but not as far south as El-Buqei'a. The Book of Joshua, chapter seven, relates the story from which the valley's name comes. After the problems the Israelites had as a result of Achan's immoral theft of items commanded to be destroyed, the Israelite community stoned Achan and his household. Liberal scholars and archaeologists regard the narrative about Achan as an aetiological myth, and instead suspect that it gained this name for another reason. Due to the horrific nature of this narrative, the phrase valley of trouble became eminently proverbial and occurs elsewhere in the Hebrew bible. The Book of Isaiah and Book of Hosea use the term - the valley of trouble, a place for herds to lie down in, the valley of trouble for a door of hope as a way of describing the redemption promised by God.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ACHOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Achor is ranked #51512 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Achor surname appeared 404 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Achor.

    91.5% or 370 total occurrences were White.
    5.2% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
    1.7% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.2% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for achor »

  1. orach

  2. roach

  3. chora

  4. corah

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of achor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of achor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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