Strong's Lexicon

H579

H579 — אָנָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewanahverbOccurrences: 4TWOT: 126

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H579
Word:	אָנָה
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with H578 through the idea of contraction in anguish)
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	anah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	aw-naw'
Meaning:	1. to approach 2. (hence) to meet in various senses
KJV Renderings:	befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB583

III. [אָנָה] verb be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic [untranscribed source text 292] the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune).

Pi`el Perfect אִנָּה Exod 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in בְיָדוֺ ׳ הָאֱלֹהִים א (object omitted), i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom suffix Ref.

Pu`al be allowed to meet, be sent, Imperfect יְאֻנֶּה Prov 12:21 (with ל); 3 feminine singular תְּאֻנֶּה Ps 91:10 (with אֶל), subject evil.

Hithpa`el cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) followed by ל 2Kgs 5:7.

BDB9648

[מָאן] noun masculine^{Ezra 7:19} vessel, utensil ( ᵑ7 מָ(א)ן, Syriac [untranscribed source text 6067], so Christian-Palestinian Aramaic, Schulth^{Lex.
106}; Old Aramaic מאן, Phoenician מנן; possibly √ אנה, see Biblical Hebrew II. אנה , compare Lag^{BN 183} Buhl); — plural, vessels of temple at Jerusalem: emphatic מָאנַיָּא Ezra 5:14; Ezra 5:15; Ezra 7:19; Dan 5:23 construct מָאנֵי Dan 5:2 Dan 5:3 ; Ezra 6:5.

עמגִלָּה see גלל .

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אנה (ah-nah’)

Exodus 21:13

KJV: And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

EHCC: but God deliver (him) into his hand 5

Psalms 91:10

KJV: There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

EHCC: There shall no evil befall thee,

Proverbs 12:21

KJV: There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

EHCC: There shall no evil Aappen to the just:

2 Kings 5:7

KJV: And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

EHCC: see how he seeketh a quarrel