אַךְ I, only, but. Pes. 5ᵃ אך חלק the word akh (Ex. XII, 15 ‘but on the first [preceding] day’) intimates a division of the day between two categories as to the laws concerning that day. Kerith 7ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. (אַכִּים) אַכִּין the word akh in the Biblical texts. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot., a. e. א׳ ורקין מיעוטין the akh and the rak intimate limiting qualifications.