ACHAN
called also Achar, i.e., one who troubles (1-Chr 2:7), in commemoration of his crime, which brought upon him an awful destruction (Josh. 7:1). On the occasion of the fall of Jericho, he seized, contrary to the divine command, an ingot of gold, a quantity of silver, and a costly Babylonish garment, which he hid in his tent. Joshua was convinced that the defeat which the Israelites afterwards sustai......
JACHAN
mourner, one of the chief Gadite "brothers" in Bashan (1-Chr 5:13). ......