BibleTools

Greek/Hebrew Definitions



Strong's #584: 'anach (pronounced aw-nakh')

a primitive root; to sigh:--groan, mourn, sigh.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ânach

1) (Niphal) sigh, groan (in pain or grief), gasp

1a) moan (of cattle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Exodus 2:23: "that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage,"
Joshua 15:63: "but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto"
Proverbs 29:2: "but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
Isaiah 24:7: "languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh."
Lamentations 1:4: "all are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she"
Lamentations 1:8: "her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward."
Lamentations 1:11: "All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things"
Lamentations 1:21: "They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all"
Ezekiel 9:4: "upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations"
Ezekiel 21:6: " Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness"
Ezekiel 21:6: "with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes."
Ezekiel 21:7: "they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? For"
Joel 1:18: "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because"









©Copyright 1992-2025 Church of the Great God.   Contact C.G.G. if you have questions or comments.
Close
E-mail This Page
Hide permanently ×

Subscribe to our Newsletter