עֲנָה
ʻănâh · H6033 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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miserable
State of persons who are suffering and unable to help themselves because of their own need or status, or the result of someone else's behavior
ExamplesDaniel 4:27 ‘Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: wipe away your sin by doing righteousness, and your wrongdoings by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֲנַןto be kindly disposed 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
- דַּל dal · H1800 · door, poor, weak
- דַּל describes one who is poor, weak, or of low social standing, a common Hebrew term for economic and social poverty that overlaps semantically with עֲנָה.
- רוּשׁ rûwsh · H7326 · to suffer want, poor, destitute
- רוּשׁ (verb) or רָשׁ/רָאשׁ (adjective) describes being poor or in want, a legitimate synonym in the Hebrew lexicon for those lacking material resources.
Contrasting words 1 word
- עָשִׁיר ʻâshîyr · H6223 · rich person
- עָשִׁיר is the standard Hebrew adjective for 'rich' or 'wealthy,' the direct lexical opposite of 'poor' in terms of economic status and material resources.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πτωχός ptōchós · G4434 · poor, destitute, of little or no value
- πτωχός is the standard Greek adjective for 'poor' in both material and spiritual senses, the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew עֲנָה when it denotes economic poverty or humble status.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 4:27 has Daniel advise Nebuchadnezzar, “wipe away your sin by doing righteousness, and your wrongdoings by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.”
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6033. anah [עֲנָי K§ 57 a) β) Str, or עֲנֵה compare Buhl, M] adjective poor, needy; —…
[עֲנָי K§ 57 a) β) Str, or עֲנֵה compare Buhl, M]
adjective poor, needy; — plural absolute עֲנָי֑ן (Bear Gi Kl.c.), or עֲנָ֑יִן (van d. H. Buhl M77*; compare D§ 39, 1) as noun Dan 4:24 the poor.
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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