Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6051
עָנָן
ananaw-nawn'
cloud
87 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻânân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6051is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 39Old Testament books
- 50spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6051
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
The King James renders it: cloud(-y).
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 "cloud". It stands 87 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
- The Greek text spells it fifty different ways.
The first use
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the cloud34
- cloud15
- in the cloud8
- a cloud6
- cloud of4
- and the cloud3
- and cloud2
- cloud his2
- like a cloud of2
- like the cloud2
- with the cloud2
- and a cloud1
and 6 more, 87 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָנָה | anah | to dwell | Uses331 |
| עָנָה | anah | be occupied | Uses82 |
| עָנָו | anav | poor | Uses22 |
| עָנָף | anaph | branch | Uses7 |
| עָנָק | anaq | neck | Uses3 |
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 87, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
50 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
- הֶעָנָ֖ן8
- הֶֽעָנָן֙7
- עָנָ֣ן5
- הֶֽעָנָ֔ן4
- הֶעָנָ֑ן4
- עָנָ֖ן4
- הֶֽעָנָ֛ן3
- עָנָ֔ן3
- בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן2
- בֶּעָנָ֣ן2
- בֶּֽעָנָ֔ן2
- עֲנַ֣ן2
and 38 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular34HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular21HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular13HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Td/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
Genesis
four uses
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
- בֶּֽעָנָ֑ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
- עָנָ֖ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
- בֶּעָנָֽן׃beananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
- בֶּֽעָנָ֑ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
Exodus
twenty uses
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- עָנָן֙ʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- וְעָנָ֑ןveananconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and cloud
And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
- בֶּעָנָֽן׃ פbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
- הֶֽעָנָן֒heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
- וְעָנָ֤ןveananconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a cloud
When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
- הֶעָנָֽן׃heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.
- הֶֽעָנָ֔ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
- הֶֽעָנָ֔ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- בֶּֽעָנָ֔ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- הֶעָנָ֑ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up.
- הֶעָנָ֑ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
- עֲנַ֨ןʾanannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cloud of
Leviticus
two uses
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- בֶּֽעָנָ֔ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
- עֲנַ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cloud of
Numbers
twenty uses
On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
- הֶֽעָנָ֔ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
- הֶעָנָ֛ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.
- הֶֽעָנָ֛ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
- הֶֽעָנָ֛ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
- הֶֽעָנָן֙heananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
- הֶֽעָנָ֛ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.
- הֶעָנָ֤ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
- הֶֽעָנָ֔ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
- וַעֲנַ֧ןvaananconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and cloud of
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
- בֶּעָנָן֮beananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,
- עָנָ֔ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
- וְהֶעָנָ֗ןveheananconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the cloud
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
- וַעֲנָֽנְךָ֙vaananekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and cloud your
- עָנָ֗ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
But when the congregation gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.
- הֶעָנָ֑ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Deuteronomy
five uses
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
- וּבֶעָנָ֖ןuveananconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the cloud
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
- עָנָ֥ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
- הֶֽעָנָ֣ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
- עָנָ֑ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
- הֶעָנָ֖ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
1 Kings
two uses
And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD
- וְהֶעָנָ֥ןveheananconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the cloud
so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
- הֶֽעָנָ֑ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
2 Chronicles
two uses
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
- עָנָ֖ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
- הֶעָנָ֑ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Nehemiah
two uses
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
- עָנָ֔ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
- הֶ֠עָנָןheanonthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
Job
six uses
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- עָ֭נָןʾanonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
- עָנָ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
- עֲנָנֽוֹ׃ananonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cloud his
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- עֲנַ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cloud of
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
- עֲנָנֽוֹ׃ananonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cloud his
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
- עָנָ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
Psalms
four uses
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- בֶּעָנָ֣ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the cloud
Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
- עָנָ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
- עָ֭נָןʾanonnoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
- עָנָ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
Isaiah
two uses
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- עָנָ֤ן׀ʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- וְכֶעָנָ֖ןvekheananconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the cloud
Jeremiah
one use
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- כַּעֲנָנִ֣יםkaananimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like clouds
Lamentations
one use
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
- בֶֽעָנָן֙veananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the cloud
Ezekiel
eleven uses
I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,
- עָנָ֤ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
- בֶעָנָ֜ןveananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
- עֲנַֽן־ʾanan-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cloud of
Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court.
- וְהֶעָנָ֣ןveheananconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the cloud
Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
- הֶ֣עָנָ֔ןheananthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cloud
For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
- עָנָ֔ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
The day will be darkened in Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt and her proud strength comes to an end. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
- עָנָ֣ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
- בֶּעָנָ֣ןbeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the cloud
As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
- עָנָ֖ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
- כֶּעָנָ֛ןkeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the cloud
You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
- כֶּֽעָנָ֖ןkeananpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the cloud
Hosea
two uses
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- כַּֽעֲנַן־kaanan-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a cloud of
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- כַּעֲנַן־kaanan-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a cloud of
Joel
one use
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- עָנָן֙ʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
Nahum
one use
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
- וְעָנָ֖ןveananconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and cloud
Zephaniah
one use
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- עָנָ֖ןʾanannoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
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 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.
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