Strong's #579: 'anah (pronounced aw-naw')

a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with 578 through the idea of contraction in anguish); to approach; hence, to meet in various senses:--befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ânâh

1) to meet, encounter, approach, be opportune

1a) (Piel) to allow to meet, cause to meet

1b) (Pual) to be sent, be allowed to meet

1c) (Hithpael) to seek occasion (quarrel), cause oneself to meet

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [perhaps rather identical with H578 through the idea of contraction in anguish]

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Exodus 21:13: "And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place"
2 Kings 5:7: "consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel"
Psalms 91:10: "There shall no evil befall shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."
Proverbs 12:21: "There shall no evil happen but the wicked shall be filled with mischief."