אֲנַס
ʼănaç · H598 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be too difficult, to baffle
State in which a mystery is too hard for someone to understand
ExamplesDaniel 4:9 ‘Belteshazzar, chief of the soothsayer priests, since I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no secret baffles you, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.
How it’s used In 4 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָזsecret 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ ךָּyou 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָאnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְדַעcertify 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- θλίβω thlíbō · G2346 · to press against, to crowd against, to cause trouble to
- Greek verb meaning to trouble, afflict, or press, commonly used in the LXX and NT for causing distress or trouble, a direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew concept of troubling or distressing.
- ταράσσω tarássō · G5015 · to cause to move, to stir up, to cause great mental distress
- Greek verb meaning to trouble or disturb, frequently used for causing mental or emotional distress, a natural Greek rendering for the Hebrew sense of troubling.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Engage002003003011
- אֲנַס describes something pressing hard upon or being too difficult for someone, as Daniel being told that no mystery baffles him (Daniel 4:9).
- Complicated002001003004
- This code is inherited from the shared root's sense of being difficult or baffling; אֲנַס (ʼănaç, H598)'s single genuine occurrence is drafted under the Engage domain above rather than treated as a second, independently distinct sense from just one citation.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H598. anas [אֲנַס] verb oppress (Biblical Hebrew [late] constrain); — Pe`al Participle…
[אֲנַס] verb oppress (Biblical Hebrew [late] constrain); —
Pe`al Participle לָ֑ךְ אָנֵס Dan 4:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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