אָנָּא
ʼânnâʼ · H577 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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please, I beg you
Marker introducing a very humble request
ExamplesGenesis 50:17 ‘This is what you shall say to Joseph: “Please forgive, I beg you, the offense of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.”’ And now, please forgive the offense of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Exodus 32:31 Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves!
2 Kings 20:3 “Please, LORD, just remember how I have walked before You wholeheartedly and in truth, and have done what is good in Your sight!” And Hezekiah wept profusely.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 1 word
- אַחֲלַי ʼachălay · H305 · would that ...! if only ...!
- Both words are particles that express petition, entreaty or an optative wish, and could substitute in contexts of beseeching or expressing desire.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὦ ō · G5599 · as a sign of the vocative case, O; as a note of exclamation, oh
- אָנָּא (ʼânnâʼ, H577) is a Hebrew interjection of entreaty/supplication ('I beseech/pray thee'), while ὦ (ō, G5599) is a Greek vocative particle marking direct address ('O'); they co-occur where LXX translators rendered Hebrew prayer formulas with Greek vocative constructions, but ὦ (ō, G5599) lacks the petitionary force inherent in אָנָּא (ʼânnâʼ, H577).
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אָנָּא is an interjection of entreaty, "please" or "I beg you," as Joseph's brothers pleading for forgiveness on their father's behalf.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H577. annah or anna אָֽנָּ֫א interjection (from אָהּ and נָא, q. v.) a strong particle of…
or anna אָֽנָּ֫א interjection (from אָהּ and נָא, q. v.) a strong particle of entreaty, ah, now! I (or We) beseech thee! often followed by an imperative; Gen 50:17 (to Joseph) וג נָא שָׂא ׳אָנָּא Ah, now ! forgive, we pray, etc., Exo 32:31 (to God); elsewhere always followed by ׳י or אֲדֹנָי Psa 118:25 (twice in verse); Neh 1:5, Neh 1:11; Dan 9:4. Written אָֽנָּ֫ה 2Ki 20:3 (= Isa 38:3) Jon 1:14; Jon 4:2; Psa 116:4; Psa 116:16.
אנב (perhaps spring, leap, so DlHA 65, Pr 114, inferred from Assyrian annabu, hare; against this NöZMG 1886, 734).
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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