אָן
ʼân · H575 · Hebrew · 41 occurrences
Meanings
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Where?
A reference to an unknown location, normally used to find out which location it is, and sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing the conviction that such a location cannot be found
ExamplesGenesis 16:8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
Genesis 37:30 He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”
Deuteronomy 1:28 ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’
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When?
A reference to an unknown point in time, normally used to find out which point in time is intended, and sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing the conviction that this time may never arrive
ExamplesExodus 16:28 Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?
Psalm 13:1 How long, LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 13:2 How long am I to feel anxious in my soul, With grief in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
14 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 28
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- אֵיפֹה ʼêyphôh · H375 · where?
- אָן (ʼân, H575) and אֵיפֹה are both interrogatives or adverbs of location or direction (“where, whither”), and can substitute in overlapping locative contexts.
- אַיֵּה ʼayêh · H346 · where?
- Both lexemes are genuine interrogative spatial referents ("where" / "whither") representing true near-synonymy in Hebrew—two distinct words asking about location or direction.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ποῦ poû · G4226 · where?, where, in which
- ποῦ (poû, G4226) serves as the Greek interrogative locative adverb corresponding to אָן (ʼân, H575), both functioning to question location or destination ('where?').
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Spatial Referents003002005
- אָן is an interrogative of place, "where?" or "whither?", as Hagar being asked where she has come from and where she is going.
- Temporal Referents003002006
- The word can also function temporally in the sense of "how long?", asking for a point in time rather than a place.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H575. an אָן adverb (contracted from I. אַיִן) where? or whither? 1Sa 10:14 (compare 1Sa…
אָן adverb (contracted from I. אַיִן) where? or whither? 1Sa 10:14 (compare 1Sa 27:10 ᵑ7 ᵑ6, see below אַל near the end); only besides in מֵאָן whence? 2Ki 5:25 Kt (Qr מֵאַיִן); עַדאָֿן of time to what point ? how long? Job 8:2. With ה locale: אָ֫נָה (a) whither ? Gen 16:8; Gen 32:18; 2Sa 2:1; 2Sa 13:13; 2Ki 6:6; Isa 10:3; Psa 139:7 (twice in verse) + 9 t.; in indirect sentence Jos 2:5; Neh 2:16; (b) = where ? Rth 2:19 (c) in the phrase וָאָ֫נָה אָ֫נֶה any whither 1Ki 2:36, 1Ki 2:42; 2Ki 5:25; (d) of time, עַדאָֿ֫נָה how long? Exo 16:28; Num 14:11 (twice in verse) (with לֹא) Jos 18:3; Jer 47:6 (followed by לֹא) Hab 1:2; Psa 13:2 (twice in verse); Psa 13:3 (twice in verse); Psa 62:4; Job 18:2; Job 19:2 (less common than the synonym מָתַי עַדּ).
אָן adverb see below אַי.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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