BDB407
אָכֵן (perhaps from אַח; compare Aramaic דֵּח & דִּכֵּן) adverb with strong asseverative force:
a.
surely, truly, especially at beginning of a speech (stronger & more decided than אַח
) Gen 28:16
; Exod 2:14;
1Sam 15:32;
Isa 40:7; Isa 45:15; Jer 3:23 (twice in
verse); Jer 4:10;
Jer 8:8. In 1Kgs 11:2
אָבֵן stands unusually; and פֶּןֿ (compare
ᵐ5
ᵑ6
ᵑ7
) should probably be read (so Klo).
b.
emphasizing a contrast, but indeed, but in fact, especially after אָמַרְתִּי
I said or thought, expressing the reality, in opposed to what had been
wrongly imagined, Isa
49:4b (opposed to va) Isa 53:4 (opposed to Isa 53:3 end) Jer 3:20 (opposed to the expectation Jer 3:19 b) Zeph 3:7b Ps 31:23b (opposed to Ps 31:23a) Ps 66:19; Ps 82:7 (opposed to
Ps 82:6) Job 32:8 (opposed
to Job 32:7).