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Hebrew verb · H6031

עָנָה

anahaw-naw'

be occupied; to afflict

82 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻânâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6031is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 75
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6031

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

The King James renders it: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), submit self, weaken, [idiom] in any wise.

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

anah is rendered "be occupied; to afflict". It stands 82 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Fifteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "be occupied".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
  • The Greek text spells it seventy-five different ways.

The first use

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:13וְעִנּ֣וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: be occupied, and to afflict.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
be occupiedStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a…
to afflictStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they will afflict3
  • and you will afflict3
  • to humble you3
  • afflicted2
  • afflicted you2
  • he has humiliated2
  • I was afflicted2
  • people afflicted2
  • to afflict it2
  • to be busy2
  • to humble2
  • to humble him2

and 53 more, 82 uses in all

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.

עָנָהanahto dwellUses331
עָנָןanancloudUses87
עָנָוanavpoorUses22
עָנָףanaphbranchUses7
עָנָקanaqneckUses3

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 82, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

75 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

  • וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם4
  • לַעֲנ֥וֹת2
  • לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹ2
  • עִנָּ֖ה2
  • תַעֲנֵֽם׃2
  • אֶ֭עֱנֶה1
  • אֲעַנֵּ֖ךְ1
  • הִתְעַנָּ֖ה1
  • הִתְעַנִּ֔יתָ1
  • וַֽאעַנֶּ֛ה1
  • וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י1
  • וַיְעַנֶּ֔הָ1

and 63 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVpp3ms
  • Hc/Vpq2mp4Hc/Vpq2mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVpp3cp
  • Hc/Vpq3cp3Hc/Vpq3cp
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HR/Vpcc/Sp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpcc/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fs2Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fs
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi2ms/Sp3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpcc/Sp2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpi2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVpi3mp

Genesis

five uses
  • Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

    Genesis 15:13

    • וְעִנּ֣וּveinuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will afflict
  • “Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

    Genesis 16:6

    • וַתְּעַנֶּ֣הָvateanehaHc/Vpw3fs/Sp3fstagged: and she afflicted her
  • So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

    Genesis 16:9

    • וְהִתְעַנִּ֖יvehitaniconjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and humble yourself
  • If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

    Genesis 31:50

    • תְּעַנֶּ֣הteanehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will mistreat
  • When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

    Genesis 34:2

    • וַיְעַנֶּֽהָ׃vayanehaHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he humiliated her

Exodus

six uses
  • So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

    Exodus 1:11

    • עַנֹּת֖וֹanotoverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to afflict it
  • But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

    Exodus 1:12

    • יְעַנּ֣וּyeanuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people afflicted
  • So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

    Exodus 10:3

    • לֵעָנֹ֖תleanotpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to humble yourself
  • You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

    Exodus 22:22

    • תְעַנּֽוּן׃teanunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you must afflict
  • If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

    Exodus 22:23

    • עַנֵּ֥הʾanehverb · intensive (piel), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to afflict
    • תְעַנֶּ֖הteanehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will afflict

Leviticus

five uses
  • This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—

    Leviticus 16:29

    • תְּעַנּ֣וּteanuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will afflict
  • It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.

    Leviticus 16:31

    • וְעִנִּיתֶ֖םveinitemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will afflict
  • “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 23:27

    • וְעִנִּיתֶ֖םveinitemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will afflict
  • If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.

    Leviticus 23:29

    • תְעֻנֶּ֔הteunehverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will humble
  • It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

    Leviticus 23:32

    • וְעִנִּיתֶ֖םveinitemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will afflict

Numbers

four uses
  • Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

    Numbers 24:24

    • וְעִנּ֥וּveinuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will afflict
    • וְעִנּוּ־veinu-Hc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will afflict
  • On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.

    Numbers 29:7

    • וְעִנִּיתֶ֖םveinitemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will humble
  • Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

    Numbers 30:13

    • לְעַנֹּ֣תleanotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to humble

Deuteronomy

seven uses
  • Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

    Deuteronomy 8:2

    • עַנֹּֽתְךָ֜ʾanotekhaverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to humble you
  • He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 8:3

    • וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮vayanekhaHc/Vpw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he humbled you
  • He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

    Deuteronomy 8:16

    • עַנֹּֽתְךָ֗ʾanotekhaverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to humble you
  • And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

    Deuteronomy 21:14

    • עִנִּיתָֽהּ׃ סʾinitahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you have humiliated her
  • you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 22:24

    • עִנָּ֖הʾinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has humiliated
  • then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

    Deuteronomy 22:29

    • עִנָּ֔הּʾinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he has humiliated her
  • But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

    Deuteronomy 26:6

    • וַיְעַנּ֑וּנוּvayanunuHc/Vpw3mp/Sp1bptagged: and they afflicted us

Judges

five uses
  • The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

    Judges 16:5

    • לְעַנֹּת֑וֹleanotopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to humble him
  • So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

    Judges 16:6

    • לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃leanotekhapreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to humble you
  • And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

    Judges 16:19

    • לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹleanotopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to humble him
  • Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

    Judges 19:24

    • וְעַנּ֣וּveanuconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and afflict
  • And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

    Judges 20:5

    • עִנּ֖וּʾinuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they abused

2 Samuel

five uses
  • And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

    2 Samuel 7:10

    • לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹleanotopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to afflict it
  • “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

    2 Samuel 13:12

    • תְּעַנֵּ֔נִיteaneniverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you humble me
  • But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

    2 Samuel 13:14

    • וַיְעַנֶּ֔הָvayanehaHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he humbled her
  • And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.

    2 Samuel 13:22

    • עִנָּ֔הʾinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had humbled
  • But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.

    2 Samuel 13:32

    • עַנֹּת֔וֹanotoverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: humbled he

1 Kings

four uses
  • Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

    1 Kings 2:26

    • הִתְעַנִּ֔יתָhitanitaverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you were afflicted
    • הִתְעַנָּ֖הhitanahverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was afflicted
  • When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

    1 Kings 8:35

    • תַעֲנֵֽם׃taanemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will afflict them
  • Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”

    1 Kings 11:39

    • וַֽאעַנֶּ֛הvaanehHC/Vpu1cstagged: so I may afflicted

2 Kings

one use
  • So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

    2 Kings 17:20

    • וַיְעַנֵּ֔םvayanemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he afflicted them

2 Chronicles

one use
  • When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

    2 Chronicles 6:26

    • תַעֲנֵֽם׃taanemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will afflict them

Ezra

one use
  • And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

    Ezra 8:21

    • לְהִתְעַנּ֖וֹתlehitanotpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to humble ourselves

Job

two uses
  • Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

    Job 30:11

    • וַיְעַנֵּ֑נִיvayaneniHc/Vpw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he has afflicted me
  • The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

    Job 37:23

    • יְעַנֶּֽה׃yeanehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he violates

Psalms

fifteen uses
  • Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

    Psalms 35:13

    • עִנֵּ֣יתִיʾineitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I humbled
  • God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

    Psalms 55:19

    • וְֽיַעֲנֵם֮veyaanemHC/Vhu3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will answer them
  • Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

    Psalms 88:7

    • עִנִּ֥יתָʾinitaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have afflicted
  • No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

    Psalms 89:22

    • יְעַנֶּֽנּוּ׃yeannenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will afflict him
  • Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

    Psalms 90:15

    • עִנִּיתָ֑נוּʾinitanuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: of you afflicted us
  • They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

    Psalms 94:5

    • יְעַנּֽוּ׃yeanuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they afflict
  • He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

    Psalms 102:23

    • עִנָּ֖הʾinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has humbled
  • They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

    Psalms 105:18

    • עִנּ֣וּʾinuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people afflicted
  • Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

    Psalms 107:17

    • יִתְעַנּֽוּ׃yitanuverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were afflicted
  • I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

    Psalms 116:10

    • עָנִ֥יתִיʾanitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am afflicted
  • Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

    Psalms 119:67

    • אֶ֭עֱנֶהʾeenehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was afflicted
  • It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

    Psalms 119:71

    • עֻנֵּ֑יתִיʾuneitiverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was afflicted
  • I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

    Psalms 119:75

    • עִנִּיתָֽנִי׃ʾinitaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have afflicted me
  • I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

    Psalms 119:107

    • נַעֲנֵ֥יתִיnaaneitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been afflicted
  • O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

    Psalms 132:1

    • עֻנּוֹתֽוֹ׃unotoverb · intensive passive (pual), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: being afflicted he

Ecclesiastes

three uses
  • And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

    Ecclesiastes 1:13

    • לַעֲנ֥וֹתlaanotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be busy
  • I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.

    Ecclesiastes 3:10

    • לַעֲנ֥וֹתlaanotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be busy
  • For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

    Ecclesiastes 5:20

    • מַעֲנֶ֖הmaanehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: keeping busy

Isaiah

nine uses
  • like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

    Isaiah 25:5

    • יַעֲנֶֽה׃ פyaanehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will quieten
  • For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

    Isaiah 31:4

    • יַֽעֲנֶ֑הyaanehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it cringes
  • Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

    Isaiah 53:4

    • וּמְעֻנֶּֽה׃umeunehconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and afflicted
  • He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

    Isaiah 53:7

    • נַעֲנֶה֮naanehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

    Isaiah 58:3

    • עִנִּ֥ינוּʾininuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: have we humbled
  • Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

    Isaiah 58:5

    • עַנּ֥וֹתanotverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to humble
  • and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

    Isaiah 58:10

    • נַעֲנָ֖הnaanahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: afflicted
  • The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

    Isaiah 60:14

    • מְעַנַּ֔יִךְmeanayikhverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: afflicted you
  • After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

    Isaiah 64:12

    • וּתְעַנֵּ֖נוּuteanenuHC/Vpu2ms/Sp1bptagged: and will you afflict? us

Lamentations

two uses
  • For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

    Lamentations 3:33

    • עִנָּה֙ʾinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has afflicted
  • Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

    Lamentations 5:11

    • עִנּ֔וּʾinuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: men have humiliated

Ezekiel

two uses
  • In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

    Ezekiel 22:10

    • עִנּוּ־ʾinu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have humiliated
  • One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

    Ezekiel 22:11

    • עִנָּה־ʾinah-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has humiliated

Daniel

one use
  • “Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

    Daniel 10:12

    • וּלְהִתְעַנּ֛וֹתulehitanotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to humble yourself

Nahum

two uses
  • This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

    Nahum 1:12

    • וְעִ֨נִּתִ֔ךְveinitikhHc/Vpq1cs/Sp2fstagged: and I have afflicted you
    • אֲעַנֵּ֖ךְʾaanekhverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I will afflict you

Zephaniah

one use
  • Behold, at that time, I will deal with all who afflict you. I will save the lame and gather the scattered; and I will appoint praise and fame for the disgraced throughout the earth.

    Zephaniah 3:19

    • מְעַנַּ֖יִךְmeanayikhverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: afflicted you

Zechariah

one use
  • For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

    Zechariah 10:2

    • יַעֲנ֖וּyaanuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are afflicted

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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