תַּאֲנִיָּה
taʼănîyâh · H8386 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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mourning
State of deep sorrow and grief; caused by the death of a relative or friend or by other tragic circumstances
ExamplesIsaiah 29:2 I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of grieving and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.
Lamentations 2:5 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has engulfed Israel; He has engulfed all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- רָבָהto increase 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 4 words
- אֵבֶל ʼêbel · H60 · mourning
- Both lexemes denote states of mourning or grief, functioning as near-synonyms describing grieving.
- בְּכִית bᵉkîyth · H1068 · weeping, mourning
- Both words denote mourning and grief, and can stand in for one another in sense.
- תַּמְרוּר tamrûwr · H8563 · bitterness, guidepost, marker
- Both lexemes legitimately belong to the grief/emotional distress semantic space: תַּאֲנִיָּה (taʼănîyâh, H8386) denotes a state of mourning/heaviness, while תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8563) denotes bitterness (often emotional). These are near-synonyms within the broader domain of negative emotional states related to grief.
- יָגוֹן yâgôwn · H3015 · grief, sorrow
- Both lexemes denote emotional states of sadness or distress and function as near-synonyms describing overlapping grief-related states.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grieve002001002013
- This noun denotes mourning, as in Isaiah 29:2's oracle that Ariel will become a city of grieving and mourning.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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