Word Study · Strong's H6062 · Hebrew
עֲנָקִי
Anaqi
an-aw-kee'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻĂnâqîy
“an Anakite or descendant of Anak”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
an Anakite or descendant of Anak
Rendered in the KJV as
Anakim.
- 9occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 8inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 9 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 8
- כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים2
- בָּעֲנָקִ֖ים1
- הָֽעֲנָקִים֙1
- כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃1
- עֲנָקִ֖ים1
- עֲנָקִ֑ים1
- עֲנָקִ֔ים1
- עֲנָקִ֣ים1
How it is rendered · 5
- like the Anakites3
- [the] Anakites2
- Anakites2
- among the Anakites1
- the Anakites1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- gentilic noun (a people)4
- preposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)4
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNgmpa · 4
- HRd/Ngmpa · 4
- HTd/Ngmpa · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Deuteronomy carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Deuteronomy5 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 1:28עֲנָקִ֖יםʾanakimgentilic noun (a people)Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”here: [the] Anakites
- Deuteronomy 2:10כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃kaanakimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.here: like the Anakites
- Deuteronomy 2:11כָּעֲנָקִ֑יםkaanakimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.here: like the Anakites
- Deuteronomy 2:21כָּעֲנָקִ֑יםkaanakimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,here: like the Anakites
- Deuteronomy 9:2עֲנָקִ֑יםʾanakimgentilic noun (a people)The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”here: [the] Anakites
Joshua4 occurrences
- Joshua 11:21הָֽעֲנָקִים֙haanakimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.here: the Anakites
- Joshua 11:22עֲנָקִ֔יםʾanakimgentilic noun (a people)No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.here: Anakites
- Joshua 14:12עֲנָקִ֣יםʾanakimgentilic noun (a people)Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”here: Anakites
- Joshua 14:15בָּעֲנָקִ֖יםbaanakimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.here: among the Anakites