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Hebrew adjective · H6041

עָנִי

aniaw-nee'

afflicted

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

Concordance spelling: ʻânîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6041is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 40
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6041

depressed, in mind or circumstances

The King James renders it: afflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor.

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

ani is rendered "afflicted". It stands 73 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Twenty-eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
  • The Greek text spells it forty different ways.

The first use

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

Exodus 22:25הֶֽעָנִי֙

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

Where the word stands

Twenty-eight of the word's seventy-three uses are in Psalms.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • poor21
  • afflicted20
  • and poor5
  • afflicted of4
  • for the poor3
  • O afflicted3
  • the poor3
  • a poor2
  • an afflicted2
  • poor of2
  • to the poor2
  • and afflicted1

and 5 more, 73 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.

All 73, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

40 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

  • עָנִ֣י13
  • עָנִ֥י7
  • עָנִ֖י7
  • עָנִ֑י3
  • עָנִי֙3
  • עֲנִיִּ֣ים3
  • לֶֽעָנִ֤י2
  • עֲנִיָּ֥ה2
  • עֲנִיֵּ֣י2
  • הֶֽעָנִי֙1
  • הֶֽעָנִ֖י1
  • הָעֲנִיִּ֨ים1

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine singular38HAamsa
  • adjective · masculine plural7HAampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HAampc
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular5HC/Aamsa
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular5HRd/Aamsa
  • adjective · feminine singular3HAafsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular2HTd/Aamsa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HAampc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Aampc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Aampc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa

Exodus

one use
  • If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

    Exodus 22:25

    • הֶֽעָנִי֙heanithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the poor

Leviticus

two uses
  • You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:10

    • לֶֽעָנִ֤יleanipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the poor
  • When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

    Leviticus 23:22

    • לֶֽעָנִ֤יleanipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the poor

Deuteronomy

four uses
  • For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

    Deuteronomy 15:11

    • לַעֲנִיֶּ֛ךָlaaniyekhapreposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to poor your
  • If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

    Deuteronomy 24:12

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

    Deuteronomy 24:14

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    Deuteronomy 24:15

    • עָנִי֙ʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor

2 Samuel

one use
  • You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

    2 Samuel 22:28

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted

Job

six uses
  • The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

    Job 24:9

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

    Job 24:14

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

    Job 29:12

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.

    Job 34:28

    • עֲנִיִּ֣יםʾaniyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.

    Job 36:6

    • עֲנִיִּ֣יםʾaniyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

    Job 36:15

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted

Psalms

twenty-eight uses
  • For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

    Psalms 9:18

    • עֲ֝נִיִּ֗יםanavimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

    Psalms 10:2

    • עָנִ֑יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

    Psalms 10:9

    • עָנִ֑יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
    • עָ֝נִ֗יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

    Psalms 12:5

    • עֲנִיִּים֮ʾaniyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

    Psalms 14:6

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

    Psalms 18:27

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

    Psalms 22:24

    • עָנִ֗יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: an afflicted
  • Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

    Psalms 25:16

    • וְעָנִ֣יveaniconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and afflicted
  • This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

    Psalms 34:6

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

    Psalms 35:10

    • עָ֭נִיʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: a poor
    • וְעָנִ֥יveaniconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and poor
  • The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

    Psalms 37:14

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

    Psalms 40:17

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.

    Psalms 68:10

    • לֶעָנִ֣יleanipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the poor
  • But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

    Psalms 69:29

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

    Psalms 70:5

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

    Psalms 72:2

    • וַעֲנִיֶּ֥יךָvaaniyeikhaconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and poor your
  • May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

    Psalms 72:4

    • עֲֽנִיֵּי־ʾaniyei-adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: poor of
  • For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

    Psalms 72:12

    • וְ֝עָנִ֗יveaniconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and poor
  • Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

    Psalms 74:19

    • עֲ֝נִיֶּ֗יךָʾaniyeikhaadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: poor your
  • Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

    Psalms 74:21

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

    Psalms 82:3

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

    Psalms 86:1

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

    Psalms 88:15

    • עָ֘נִ֤יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

    Psalms 109:16

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

    Psalms 109:22

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

    Psalms 140:12

    • עָנִ֑יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor

Proverbs

five uses
  • All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

    Proverbs 15:15

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

    Proverbs 22:22

    • עָנִ֣יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: a poor
  • there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

    Proverbs 30:14

    • עֲנִיִּ֣יםʾaniyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

    Proverbs 31:9

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

    Proverbs 31:20

    • לֶעָנִ֑יleanipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the poor

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

    Ecclesiastes 6:8

    • לֶּעָנִ֣יleanipreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the poor

Isaiah

thirteen uses
  • The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

    Isaiah 3:14

    • הֶֽעָנִ֖יheanithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the poor
  • Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

    Isaiah 3:15

    • עֲנִיִּ֖יםʾaniyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: poor
  • to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

    Isaiah 10:2

    • עֲנִיֵּ֣יʾaniyeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: poor of
  • Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!

    Isaiah 10:30

    • עֲנִיָּ֥הʾaniyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: O afflicted
  • What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

    Isaiah 14:32

    • עֲנִיֵּ֥יʾaniyeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: afflicted of
  • Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the steps of the poor.

    Isaiah 26:6

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted
  • The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

    Isaiah 32:7

    • עֲנִיִּים֙anavimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: afflicted
  • The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

    Isaiah 41:17

    • הָעֲנִיִּ֨יםhaaniyimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the poor
  • Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

    Isaiah 49:13

    • וַעֲנִיָּ֖וvaaniyavconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and afflicted his
  • Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

    Isaiah 51:21

    • עֲנִיָּ֑הʾaniyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: O afflicted
  • “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

    Isaiah 54:11

    • עֲנִיָּ֥הʾaniyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: O afflicted
  • Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

    Isaiah 58:7

    • וַעֲנִיִּ֥יםvaaniyimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and poor
  • Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

    Isaiah 66:2

    • עָנִי֙ʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: an afflicted

Jeremiah

one use
  • He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 22:16

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor

Ezekiel

four uses
  • Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

    Ezekiel 16:49

    • עָנִ֥יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

    Ezekiel 18:12

    • עָנִ֤יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.

    Ezekiel 18:17

    • מֵעָנִ֞יmeanipreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: from poor
  • The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

    Ezekiel 22:29

    • וְעָנִ֤יveaniconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and poor

Amos

one use
  • Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

    Amos 8:4

    • עֲנִיֵּיanvei-adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: afflicted of

Habakkuk

one use
  • With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

    Habakkuk 3:14

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted

Zephaniah

one use
  • But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

    Zephaniah 3:12

    • עָנִ֖יʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: afflicted

Zechariah

four uses
  • Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

    Zechariah 7:10

    • וְעָנִ֖יveaniconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and poor
  • Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

    Zechariah 9:9

    • עָנִי֙ʾaniadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
  • So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

    Zechariah 11:7

    • עֲנִיֵּ֣יʾaniyeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: afflicted of
  • It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

    Zechariah 11:11

    • עֲנִיֵּ֤יʾaniyeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: afflicted of

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