עָנָה
ʻânâh · aw-naw'
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 (עָנָה) through the idea of looking down or browbeating);
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
To see and know of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָנָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
82 occurrences · 82 OT · 0 NT · 75 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to afflict5 · 14%
- and afflicted3 · 8%
- afflict2 · 5%
- to be exercised2 · 5%
- to humble2 · 5%
- and afflict2 · 5%
- and ye shall afflict2 · 5%
- and shall afflict2 · 5%
- but the more they afflicted1 · 3%
- not, that he might humble1 · 3%
- with her, and defiled her1 · 3%
- if thou shalt afflict1 · 3%
- it be that shall not be afflicted1 · 3%
- ye shall not afflict1 · 3%
- unto you, and ye shall afflict1 · 3%
- and submit1 · 3%
- ye shall afflict1 · 3%
- of them that sing1 · 3%
- them in any wise1 · 3%
- unto you; and ye shall afflict1 · 3%
- thou afflict1 · 3%
- and he humbled1 · 3%
- dealt hardly with1 · 3%
- thou hast humbled1 · 3%
- them; and they shall afflict1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.