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תַּאֲנָה

taʼănâh · H8385 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. heat, lust, passion

    State in which animals sense a physical desire to have sexual intercourse

    Examples

    Jeremiah 2:24 A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. Who can turn her away in her mating season? None who seek her will grow weary; In her month they will find her.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 entries
Desire002004001001001
This noun denotes passionate desire, as in Jeremiah 2:24's picture of a wild donkey sniffing the wind in her passion during her mating season.
Think002004002013
The noun also denotes a sought pretext or opportunity, as in Judges 14:4's account of Samson's father not knowing that the LORD was seeking an occasion against the Philistines.
Word family 2 words

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

אָנָה ʼânâh · H579 · to mourn, to lament, to befall · 4×תַּאֲנָהtaʼănâh · H8385
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8385. ta 'anah [תַּאֲנָה noun feminine occasion, time of copulation; suffix תַּאֲנָתָהּ…
H8385. ta
'anah [תַּאֲנָה noun feminine occasion, time of copulation; suffix תַּאֲנָתָהּ i.e. of wild ass Jer 2:24.
תֹּאֲנָה
noun feminine opportunity, i.e. ground of quarrel; of Samson, followed by מִן Jdg 14:4.
אָֽנָּ֫ה see אָֽנָּ֫א. above

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Desire1 occurrenceThink1 occurrence

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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