Achan

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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 sustained before Ai was a proof of the
     divine displeasure on account of some crime, and he at once
     adopted means by the use of the lot for discovering the
     criminal. It was then found that Achan was guilty, and he was
     stoned to death in the valley of Achor. He and all that belonged
     to him were then consumed by fire, and a heap of stones was
     raised over the ashes.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Achan, or Achar, he that troubleth