עָנָן
ʻânân · aw-nawn'
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6049 (עָנַן);
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cloud(-y).
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
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the seed, life continuing › the seed, life continuing
To see and know of the seed, life continuing of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָנָן 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
87 occurrences · 87 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the cloud10 · 15%
- cloud7 · 11%
- and the cloud6 · 9%
- in the cloud5 · 8%
- the cloud5 · 8%
- that the cloud4 · 6%
- a cloud3 · 5%
- of a cloud3 · 5%
- the cloudy2 · 3%
- and when the cloud2 · 3%
- when the cloud2 · 3%
- clouds2 · 3%
- with a cloud2 · 3%
- of clouds2 · 3%
- shall be in the cloud1 · 2%
- and it was a cloud1 · 2%
- and of the cloud1 · 2%
- and a cloud1 · 2%
- then a cloud1 · 2%
- because the cloud1 · 2%
- but if the cloud1 · 2%
- for the cloud1 · 2%
- where the cloud1 · 2%
- and that the cloud1 · 2%
- in a cloud1 · 2%
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.