אָנַק
ʼânaq · H602 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to sigh, to groan, to moan
Action by which humans make a deep inarticulate sound caused by pain, grief, or severe suffering
ExamplesJeremiah 51:52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “When I will punish her idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and make a mark on the foreheads of the people who groan and sigh over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.”
Ezekiel 24:17 “Groan silently; do no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your mustache, and do not eat the bread of other people.”
How it’s used In 2 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
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- חָלָלslain, wounded 2
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ תּוֹעֵבַהabomination, detestable thing 1
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 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 3 words
- אָנַח ʼânach · H584 · to sigh, to groan, to moan
- אָנַק (ʼânaq, H602) and אָנַח (ʼânach, H584) both denote vocal expressions of distress or grief—groaning, sighing, mourning, crying—sharing the sense “groan.”
- נָאַק nâʼaq · H5008 · to groan, to moan
- Both words denote vocal expressions of distress or pain (groaning, crying).
- יָלַל yâlal · H3213 · to wail, to howl
- אָנַק (ʼânaq, H602) (“groan, cry”) and יָלַל (“howl”) both denote vocal expressions of distress, sounds of anguish and audible expressions of grief.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אָנַק describes groaning or crying out, as the wounded groaning throughout the land in a coming judgment.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H602. anaq [אָנַק] verb cry, groan (Aramaic אֲנַק — Qal Imperfect יֶאֱנֹק Jer 51:52;…
[אָנַק] verb cry, groan (Aramaic אֲנַק —
Qal Imperfect יֶאֱנֹק Jer 51:52; Infinitive construct אֱנֹק Eze 26:15, both of groaning of wounded (חָלָל).
Niph`al id., in mourning, lamentation; Infinitive construct הֵאָנֵק Eze 24:17 || אֵבֶל עָשָׂה); Participle נֶאֱנָקִים Eze 9:4 (|| נֶאֱנָחִים followed by עַל.
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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