Hebrew verb · H6049
עָנַן
ananaw-nan'
to cloud; to divine; Diviners' (Oak)
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻânan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6049is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6049
figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic
The King James renders it: [idiom] bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
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
anan is rendered "to cloud; to divine; Diviners' (Oak)". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "to cloud".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:14Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
Genesis 9:14בְּעַֽנְנִ֥י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to cloud, and to divine, and Diviners' (Oak).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to cloudStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 9:14Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, |
| to divineStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| Diviners' (Oak)Strong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a soothsayer2
- and he practiced soothsaying2
- and soothsayers2
- soothsayer1
- soothsayers1
- soothsayers your1
- when bring cloud I1
- you will practice soothsaying1
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
- בְּעַֽנְנִ֥י1
- וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים1
- וְעוֹנֵ֣ן1
- וְעוֹנֵ֤ן1
- וְעֹֽנְנִ֖ים1
- מְעוֹנֵ֥ן1
- מְעוֹנְנִֽים׃1
- מְעֹנְנִ֥ים1
- עֹנְנָ֑ה1
- עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖ם1
- תְעוֹנֵֽנוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpq3ms2Hc/Vpq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HC/Vprmpa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HVprmpa
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpi2mp
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular1HVprfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HVprmpc/Sp2mp
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
Genesis
one use
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
- בְּעַֽנְנִ֥יbeanipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when bring cloud I
Leviticus
one use
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
- תְעוֹנֵֽנוּ׃teonenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will practice soothsaying
Deuteronomy
two uses
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- מְעוֹנֵ֥ןmeonenverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a soothsayer
Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
- מְעֹנְנִ֥יםmeonenimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: soothsayers
Judges
one use
Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
- מְעוֹנְנִֽים׃meonimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: soothsayer
2 Kings
one use
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- וְעוֹנֵ֣ןveonenHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he practiced soothsaying
2 Chronicles
one use
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- וְעוֹנֵ֤ןveonenHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he practiced soothsaying
Isaiah
two uses
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- וְעֹֽנְנִ֖יםveonenimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and soothsayers
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
- עֹנְנָ֑הʾonenahverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: a soothsayer
Jeremiah
one use
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
- עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖םʾoneneikhemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: soothsayers your
Micah
one use
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
- וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖יםumeonimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and soothsayers
The letters
Gematria 170· 820 mispar gadol
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.