אֲנָא
ʼănâʼ · H576 · Hebrew · proper noun · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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I
Referent to the speaker or writer in a discourse
ExamplesEzra 6:12 “May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who attempts to change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”
Ezra 7:21 “I myself, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers who are in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it shall be done diligently,
Daniel 2:8 The king replied, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command from me is firm,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
8 occurrences in 7 groups
- נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרNebuchadnezzar 4
- דָּנִיֵּאלDaniel 1
- דָּֽרְיָוֵשׁDarius 1
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּאArtaxerxes 1
- יmy 1
What it doesIt is the subject
12 occurrences in 10 groups
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐγώ egṓ · G1473 · I, me
- אֲנָא (ʼănâʼ, H576) אֲנָא (Aramaic) and ἐγώ (egṓ, G1473) ἐγώ are cognate first-person singular pronouns across the sister languages, representing the standard grammatical rendering of 'I' in their respective linguistic systems.
- אֲנִי ʼănîy · H589 · I
- Aramaic cognate of Hebrew אֲנִי (ʼănîy, H589), both first-person singular pronouns ('I, me') from the shared Semitic pronominal root, appearing in Aramaic portions of Daniel and Ezra where אֲנָא (ʼănâʼ, H576) serves as the direct Aramaic equivalent to Hebrew אֲנִי (ʼănîy, H589)'s function elsewhere.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Object Referents003001
- Ezra 6:12 has King Darius close his decree, “I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H576. anah אֲנָא Dan 2:8; Ezr 6:12; Ezr 7:21 in common editions: see אֲנָה below אֲנָה…
אֲנָא Dan 2:8; Ezr 6:12; Ezr 7:21 in common editions: see אֲנָה below
אֲנָה pronoun 1 singular I (= Hebrew אֲנִי, q. v.: Zenjirli, Cilician, Egyptian Aramaic אנךְ (Cooke182; 104; 208; S-Coft), Nabataean נח . . . (Lzb221); אנא ᵑ7, Syriac ); — I, Dan 2:30; Dan 4:6; Dan 4:27; Dan 5:16, before a participle Dan 3:25; Dan 4:34, after a participle (K§ 76, 2b) Dan 2:8 אֲנָה יָדַע מִןיַֿצִּיב, Dan 2:23; Dan 4:4; followed by a proper name Dan 4:1 חֲוֵית שְׁלֵח נבוכדנצר אֲנָה, Dan 4:15; Dan 4:34; Dan 7:15; Ezr 6:12; Ezr 7:21, as nom. pendens ['hanging' noun clause], Dan 4:31; Dan 7:28; emphasizing a suffix (K§ 87, 3) Dan 7:15; Ezr 7:21 (compare S-CB 8, J 12, K3.5).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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