אָנַח
ʼânach · H584 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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to sigh, to groan, to moan
Action by which humans or animals make a deep inarticulate sound caused by pain, grief, or severe suffering
ExamplesExodus 2:23 Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage ascended to God.
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked person rules, people groan.
Isaiah 24:7 The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
12 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- מִןfrom+ עֲבֹדָהwork 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ מָהwhat?, why? 1
- בin/on/with+ מָשַׁלto rule, to have dominion 1
- בin/on/with+ בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
- לto/for+ עַיִןeye, sight 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
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
- אָנַק ʼânaq · H602 · to sigh, to groan, to moan
- אָנַח (ʼânach, H584) and אָנַק both denote vocal expressions of distress or grief—groaning, sighing, mourning, crying—and share the sense “groan.”
- נָאַק nâʼaq · H5008 · to groan, to moan
- Both words denote groaning or sighing sounds and have closely overlapping senses, both describing similar vocalizations of distress.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אָנַח describes groaning or sighing, as the sons of Israel groaning under the bondage of Egypt.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H584. anach [אָנַח] verb only Niph`al sigh, groan, mostly in poetry & late (Aramaic…
[אָנַח] verb only
Niph`al sigh, groan, mostly in poetry & late (Aramaic אֲנַח, Ethpe`el compare Assyrian [anâ—u], inh—u, sigh ZimBP 12, 30) — Perfect3feminine singular נֶאֶנְחָה Lam 1:8; Joe 1:18; Joe 1:3plural נֶאֶנְחוּ Isa 24:7; Imperfect יֵאָנַח Pro 29:2 etc.; Imperative הֵאָנַ֯ח֑ Eze 21:11; Participle נֶאְנָ֑ךְ Eze 21:12; נֶאֱנָחָה Lam 1:21 etc.; —
1 sigh, in token of grief Isa 24:7; Pro 29:2; Lam 1:4 (|| נוּגוֺתּ) Lam 1:21; Eze 21:11 (twice in verse); of Jerusalem Lam 1:8; mostly absolute but followed by אַלֿ Eze 9:4 (|| נֶאֱנָק); followed by עַלֿ & אֱלֿ Eze 21:12.
2 in physical distress Lam 1:11 (|| לֶחֶם בִּקֵּשׁ); Exo 2:23 followed by מִן by reason of (|| זָעַק).
3 groan of cattle (בְּהֵמָה) Joe 1:18.
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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