Hebrew noun (feminine) · H585
אֲנָחָה
anachahan-aw-khaw'
sighing
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼănâchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H585is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H585
sighing
The King James renders it: groaning, mourn, sigh.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
anachah is rendered "sighing". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Job 3:24אַנְחָתִ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- groaning my3
- and sighing2
- and sighing my1
- by groaning my1
- groaning its1
- groanings my1
- with groaning1
- with groaning my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַנְחָתָ֖ה1
- אַנְחָתִ֑י1
- אַנְחָתִ֣י1
- אַנְחֹתַ֖י1
- אַנְחָתִֽי׃1
- בַּאֲנָ֫חָ֥ה1
- בְּֽאַנְחָתִ֗י1
- בְּאַנְחָתִ֔י1
- וַאֲנָחָֽה׃ ס1
- וַאֲנָחָֽה׃ פ1
- וְ֝אַנְחָתִ֗י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfpc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Job
two uses
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- אַנְחָתִ֣יʾanchatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: groaning my
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- אַנְחָתִֽי׃ʾanchatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: groaning my
Psalms
four uses
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- בְּֽאַנְחָתִ֗יbeanchatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: by groaning my
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- בַּאֲנָ֫חָ֥הbaanachahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with groaning
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- וְ֝אַנְחָתִ֗יveanchaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and sighing my
Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
- אַנְחָתִ֑יʾanchatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: groaning my
Isaiah
three uses
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- אַנְחָתָ֖הʾanchatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: groaning its
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- וַאֲנָחָֽה׃ פvaanachahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and sighing
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- וַאֲנָחָֽה׃ סvaanachahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and sighing
Jeremiah
one use
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
- בְּאַנְחָתִ֔יbeanchatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: with groaning my
Lamentations
one use
Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
- אַנְחֹתַ֖יʾanchotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: groanings my
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.