אָנַס
ʼânaç · H597 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to force, to compel, to restrain
To enforce a certain type of behavior
ExamplesEsther 1:8 But the drinking was done according to the royal law; there was no compulsion, for so the king had given orders to each official of his household, that he was to do as each person pleased.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Engage002003003011
- אָנַס describes compelling or engaging someone to act, as the absence of compulsion at Ahasuerus's banquet, where "there was no compulsion" (Esther 1:8).
- Complicated002001003004
- The word can also carry a sense of constraint imposed on a situation, as the compulsion explicitly noted as absent from the royal drinking custom (Esther 1:8).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H597. anas [אָנַס] verb compel, constrain (late, often Mishna id., Aramaic אֲנַם, ) — Qal…
[אָנַס] verb compel, constrain (late, often Mishna id., Aramaic אֲנַם, ) —
Qal Participle אֹנֵס אֵין namely, to drink Est 1:8 (|| וָאִישׁ אִישׁ כִּרְצוֺן).
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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