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Achsah

Mentioned in 1442 BC traditional (Jones)

Anklet, Caleb’s only daughter (1 Chr. 2:49). She was offered in marriage to the man who would lead an attack on the city of Debir, or Kirjath-sepher.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Caleb
Partner
Othniel
Siblings
Elah, Iru, Naam
Tagged in
4 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Achsah: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Achsah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. location not graded: Kiriath-sepher2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1467–1417 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Achsah’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Achsah in 4 tagged verses across 2 books.

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  1. Joshua2
  2. Judges2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAchsah 0
KJVAchsah 5
ASVAchsah 5

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Joshua2 verses
  1. 15:16

    And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

  2. 15:17

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

Judges2 verses
  1. 1:12

    And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

  2. 1:13

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Anklet, Caleb’s only daughter (1 Chr. 2:49). She was offered in marriage to the man who would lead an attack on the city of Debir, or Kirjath-sepher. This was done by Othniel (q.v.), who accordingly obtained her as his wife (Josh. 15:16-19; Judg. 1:9-15).