עֳנִי
ʻŏnîy · on-ee'
depression, i.e. misery
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6031 (עָנָה);
depression, i.e. misery
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: afflicted(-ion), trouble.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the seed, life continuing › the hand that works
To see and know of the seed, life continuing of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֳנִי 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
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of affliction5 · 15%
- mine affliction3 · 9%
- the affliction3 · 9%
- my trouble2 · 6%
- thy affliction1 · 3%
- upon my affliction1 · 3%
- of my affliction1 · 3%
- you up out of the affliction1 · 3%
- upon their affliction1 · 3%
- on our affliction1 · 3%
- on the affliction1 · 3%
- on mine affliction1 · 3%
- now, behold, in my trouble1 · 3%
- thou mine affliction1 · 3%
- in his affliction1 · 3%
- rather than affliction1 · 3%
- upon mine affliction1 · 3%
- our affliction1 · 3%
- by reason of affliction1 · 3%
- in affliction1 · 3%
- from affliction1 · 3%
- in my affliction1 · 3%
- in mine affliction1 · 3%
- of any of the afflicted1 · 3%
- because of affliction1 · 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.