Strong's Lexicon

H605

H605 — אָנַשׁ

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

HebrewanashverbOccurrences: 9TWOT: 135

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H605
Word:אָנַשׁ
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:9
Transliteration:anash
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:aw-nash'
Meaning:1. to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy
KJV Renderings:desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB607

I. [אָנַשׁ] verb be weak, sick (Assyrian anâšu ZimBP 56, 70; Wetzst in DePsalmen, ed. 4, 882 derive from II. אנשׁ per antiphrasin; DlPr 160 identified with III. אנשׁ; see also DePsalmen, ed. 4, 904; so LagBN 60, who compare [untranscribed source text 316], weichliches d.h. stumpfes Schwert. It seems safer at present to keep the three distinct).

Qal Passive participle אָנוּשׁ Job 34:6 +; אֲנוּשָׁה Jer 15:18; Mic 1:9 & so read Ps 69:21 ( Bi Che) etc.; as adjective incurable, of wound, but metaphor (מַכָּה) Mic 1:9; Jer 15:18 compare Job 34:6 (חֵץ), Jer 30:12 שֵׁבֶר; || נַחְלָה מַכָּה); so כְּאֵב אָנוּשׁ Isa 17:11 compare Jer 30:15 (מַכְאֹב); compare יוֺם אָנוּשׁ Isa 17:16 also in phrase עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל וְאָנֻשׁ הוּא Jer 17:9
Niph`al Imperfect וַיֵּאָנַ֯שׁ֑ 2Sam 12:15 be sick, of child.


Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אנש (ah-nash’)

Job 34:6

KJV: Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.my wound: Heb. mine arrow
EHCC: my wound (is) incurable without | Bec. 7

Micah 1:9

KJV: For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.her…: or, she is grievously sick of her wounds
EHCC: For her wound (is) ixcerable ; (marg. (she | Dan 4

2 Samuel 12:15

KJV: And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
EHCC: anto David, and it was very sick,

Daniel 2:10

KJV: The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
EHCC: it is WON.

Daniel 6:11

KJV: Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
EHCC: that whosoever shall alter (lit. every man Job 3.

Daniel 2:10

KJV: The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
EHCC: There is not a man upon the earth Ps. bs
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