Word study
Exact
10 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: exact, exacted, exacts, exacting. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “exact” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 2 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
- פָּרָשָׁה pârâshâhexact statementtranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H6575Noun · Translated: exact amount 1, together with the full account 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Esther 4:7 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
- נָשָׁא nâshâbeguile, deceivetranslated this way 1 time of its 14 uses · Strong’s H5377Verb · Translated: deceive 7, deceived 6, exact tribute 1Full study and all 14 verses →
Psalm 89:22 No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
- לָקַח lâqachtaketranslated this way 1 time of its 938 uses · Strong’s H3947Verb · Translated: take 247, took 245, taken 40, get 26Full study and all 890 verses →
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 1 time of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
- שׂוּם sûmput, place, settranslated this way 1 time of its 560 uses · Strong’s H7760Verb · Translated: put 84, set 71, make 45, made 39Full study and all 533 verses →
2 Kings 18:14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
- נָגַשׂ nâgaspress, drive, oppress, exacttranslated this way 1 time of its 23 uses · Strong’s H5065Verb · Translated: taskmasters 4, oppressor 4, oppressors 2, collect 2Full study and all 23 verses →
2 Kings 23:35 So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
- נָשָׁא nâshâlend on interest, or usury, be a creditortranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s H5378Verb · Translated: indebted 1, required 1, exacting 1, creditor 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Nehemiah 5:7 and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- נָשָׁה nâshâhforgettranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s H5382Verb · Translated: forget 2, made me forget 1, exacts 1, deprived 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Job 11:6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
- תְּרוּמָה terûmâhcontribution, offeringtranslated this way 1 time of its 73 uses · Strong’s H8641Noun · Translated: offering 24, contribution 13, portion 8, contributions 7Full study and all 63 verses →
Proverbs 29:4 By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.
Greek words (New Testament)
- χαρακτήρ charaktḗran exact reproductiontranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G5481Noun · Translated: exact representation 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.