עָנַן
ʻânan · H6049 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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to practice soothsaying, to practice divination, to tell fortunes, to tell the future
Action by which someone foretells future events by using magic, casting spells, or conjuring up spirits; forbidden by the Law of Moses
ExamplesLeviticus 19:26 ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.
Deuteronomy 18:10 “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
Deuteronomy 18:14 “For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
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to bring clouds, to cause clouds to appear
Causative action by which a deity causes clouds to appear
ExamplesGenesis 9:14 “It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
How it’s used In 8 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
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- נִיI 1
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָנָןcloud 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
- כlike/as+ פְּלִשְׁתִּיPhilistine 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward 2
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- אֵלוֹןoak 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
- כָּשַׁף kâshaph · H3784 · to practice sorcery, sorcerer: sorceress
- כשׁף (“witchcraft, sorcery”) and עָנַן (ʻânan, H6049) (“enchanting, soothsaying, observing times”) denote distinct but related divination practices, overlapping in illicit divination activities.
- קָסַם qâçam · H7080 · to practice divination
- Both words denote acts of divination or soothsaying, referring to overlapping forbidden practices.
- נָחַשׁ nâchash · H5172 · to divine, to practice divination, to use omens
- Both words denote divinatory practices of enchantment and augury; they are two distinct verbs for similar acts of seeking omens.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Divination002003003009
- עָנַן denotes practicing soothsaying or divination, the forbidden practice repeatedly grouped with sorcery and augury in the law's prohibitions and in the list of abominable practices in Deuteronomy 18.
- Happen002002003003
- The word's association with observing or interpreting times and omens links it to reading what is about to happen, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which focus on the practice being condemned rather than its outcome.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6049. anan [עָנַן] verb denominative Pi`el Infinitive construct suffix with accusative…
[עָנַן] verb denominative Pi`el Infinitive construct suffix with accusative of congnate meaning with verb ע ׳בְּעַנְנִי עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Gen 9:14 (P) when I bring clouds, etc.
II. [עָנַן] verb Po`. practice soothsaying (probably denominative, but original meaning dubious; connection with I. עָנָן (DeIsa 2:6) now Generally abandoned; LöwZMG xxxi (1877), 539 compare עַיִן eye, so WeSkizzen iii. 148 (but see below); RSJPhil xiv (1885), 119 f. compare Arabic nasal twang, hum of insects, whence diviners as crooning; Ew Gerber31of diviner as interpreting hum of insects, whisper of leaves, etc.; WeHeid. 2, 204 now compare appear, i. e. dealers in phenomena); — Perfect3masculine singular consecutive וְעוֺנֵן 2Ki 21:6 2Ch 33:6; Imperfect2masculine plural תְעוֺנֵ֑נוּ וְלֹא Lev 19:26 (H); Participle as substantive מְעוֺנֵן Deu 18:10 (forbidden), plural מְעֹנְנִים Deu 18:14, ׳מְעוֺ Mic 5:11, מְעוֺנְנִים אֵלוֺן Jdg 9:37 (see I. אֵלוֺן; seat of an oracle, compare RSSem i. 179 2nd ed. 196); also (without מְ, compare Sta§ 233 Köi. 349) עֹנְנִים Isa 2:6, suffix עֹנְנֵיכֶם Jer 27:9; feminine singular in עֹנְנָה בְּנֵי Isa 57:3 sons of a soothsaying woman, figurative of apostates. — see כִּשֵּׁף, II. [נָחַשׁ], [קָסַם].
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
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