אֲנָקָה
ʼănâqâh · H603 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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sighing, groaning, moaning
Act by which humans make a deep inarticulate sound caused by pain, grief, or severe suffering
ExamplesPsalm 12:5 “Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the LORD; “I will put him in the safety for which he longs.”
Psalm 79:11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; According to the greatness of Your power, let those who are doomed to die remain.
Psalm 102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death,
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָסִירprisoner 2
- אֶבְיוֹןpoor 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 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
- נְאָקָה nᵉʼâqâh · H5009 · groaning, moaning
- The target lexeme and נְאָקָה are two distinct Hebrew words that both denote groaning or sighing sounds, overlapping in their core sense and capable of substituting for each other in context.
- אֲנָחָה ʼănâchâh · H585 · sighing, groaning, moaning
- The target lexeme and אֲנָחָה both denote vocal expressions of distress — groaning, sighing, crying out — and are true near-synonyms, substitutable in contexts describing audible human lament.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Sounds002004001009007
- אֲנָקָה names groaning or sighing, as the groaning of the prisoner the psalmist asks to come before the LORD (Psalm 79:11).
- Small Animals001001002003
- This entry carries no independent small-animal sense of its own; every tagged occurrence of this lexeme is the groaning noun: “Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You” (Psalm 79:11). The “Small Animals” domain is bundle-shared with the homographic unclean-creature term אֲנָקָה (ʼănâqâh, H604) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H603. anaqah I. אֲנָקָה noun feminine crying, groaning, in distress (Arabic ) Mal 2:13…
I. אֲנָקָה noun feminine crying, groaning, in distress (Arabic ) Mal 2:13 (|| בְּכִי דִּמְעָה,); construct אֶנְקַת Psa 12:6 (of poor, אֶבְיוֺן); Psa 79:11 (of prisoner אָסִיר), so Psa 102:21.
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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