Word

אָנַן

ʼânan · H596 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to complain

To express one's dissatisfaction about a certain matter

Examples
Numbers 11:1 Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the ears of the LORD; and the LORD heard them and His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some at the outskirts of the camp.
Lamentations 3:39 Of what can any living mortal, or any man, Complain in view of his sins?

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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָדָםhuman, humankind, human being(s) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ חֵטְאguilt 1
בin/on/with+ אֹזֶןear 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 2

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

רָגַן râgan · H7279 · to complain, to grumble: Both words denote expressions of discontent or dissatisfaction and could substitute for each other in many contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Complain002004001009002: אָנַן describes complaining, as the people complaining of adversity in the ears of the LORD in the wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H596. anan [אָנַן] verb only Hithpo`el complain, murmur (Mishna אֶנן, Aramaic אֲנַן,…

H596. anan
[אָנַן] verb only
Hithpo`el complain, murmur (Mishna אֶנן, Aramaic אֲנַן, Arabic , Assyrian [anânu], whence ênênu, unnînu, sigh ZimBP 22) — Imperfect יִתְאוֺנֵן Lam 3:39 (followed by עַלֿ in || member); Participle י ׳בְּאָזְנֵי מִתְאֹנְנִים (followed by accusative; see Di).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Complain2 occurrences

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