Word

עֳנִי

ʻŏnîy · H6040 · Hebrew · 36 occurrences

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Meanings

affliction, misery, suffering

Literally: to be bowed down; hence: state in which humans are suffering hardship and trouble and unable to help themselves

Examples
Genesis 16:11 The angel of the LORD said to her further, “Behold, you are pregnant, And you will give birth to a son; And you shall name him Ishmael, Because the LORD has heard your affliction.
Genesis 29:32 Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 31:42 “If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”

How it’s used In 5 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

24 occurrences in 11 groups

יmy 13
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָרָהto rebel 1

What is done to itIt is the object

14 occurrences in 4 groups

רָאָהto see 11
זָכַרto remember 1
רָאֶהto see 1
שָׁכַחto forget 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 11
מִןfrom 9
אֵלto, toward 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

9 occurrences in 7 groups

יוֹםday, time 3
בֵּןson 1
חֶבֶלcord, rope, region 1
כּוּרsmelting furnace 1
לֶחֶםbread, food 1
אָסִירprisoner 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Unsafe002003003022: עֳנִי denotes affliction or trouble, the common noun for the distress experienced by the oppressed or suffering, as repeatedly invoked in laments and historical narratives of hardship.

Word family 15 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָנָה ʻânâh · H6030 · to answer, to respond, to speak up · 315×מַעַן maʻan · H4616 · for the sake of, so that · 272×עָנָה ʻânâh · H6031 · to answer, to respond, to speak up · 82×עָנִי ʻânîy · H6041 · afflicted, poor, humble · 75×עֳנִיʻŏnîy · H6040עֲנָה ʻănâh · H6032 · answer, speak · 30×עָנָו ʻânâv · H6035 · afflicted, poor, humble · 21×עִנְיָן ʻinyân · H6045 · business, matter · 8×מַעֲנֶה maʻăneh · H4617 · answer, response, reply · 7×עֲנָוָה ʻănâvâh · H6038 · humility, meekness · 7×מַעֲנָה maʻănâh · H4618 · furrow · 2×עֲנָה ʻănâh · H6033 · poor · 1×עֱנוּת ʻĕnûwth · H6039 · affliction · 1×תַּעֲנִית taʻănîyth · H8589 · self-affliction · 1×עַנְוָה ʻanvâh · H6037 · humility, meekness · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6040. oniy עֳנִי noun masculine affliction, poverty; — ׳ע Exo 3:7 +; עֹ֑נִי Deu 16:3 +,…

H6040. oniy
עֳנִי noun masculine affliction, poverty; — ׳ע Exo 3:7 +; עֹ֑נִי Deu 16:3 +, ע֑וֺנִי Psa 107:41, עוני 2Sa 16:12 (Kt, but read עָנְיִי; > Qr עֵינִי !); suffix עָנְיִי Gen 31:42 +, עָנְיֵךְ Gen 16:11, etc.; —
1 affliction, Job 36:15, Job 36:21; Psa 44:25; Psa 88:10; Psa 107:41; Psa 119:50; Psa 119:92; Lam 1:3; Lam 3:19; ע ׳ארץ Gen 41:52 (E); ע ׳יְמֵי Job 30:16, Job 30:27; Lam 1:7; ע ׳כּוּר Isa 48:10; ע ׳חַבְלֵי Job 36:8; ע ׳אֲסִירֵי Psa 107:10; ע ׳בְּנֵי Pro 31:5; ע ׳ראה Gen 31:42 (E), Exo 3:7; Exo 4:31 (J), Deu 26:7; 2Ki 14:26; Neh 9:9; Job 10:15; Psa 9:14; Psa 25:18; Psa 31:8; Psa 119:153; Lam 1:9; Lam 3:1, insert also before עַמִּי 1Sa 9:16b ᵐ5 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS; בע ׳ראה Gen 29:32 (J), 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 16:12 (see above); ע ׳שׁמע Gen 16:11 (J); מע ׳העלה Exo 3:17 (J); עני לחם Deu 16:3.
2 poverty, זהב הכינותי בְּעָנְיִי 1Ch 22:14.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Unsafe36 occurrences

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