Strong's #6030: `anah (pronounced aw-naw')
a primitive root; properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce:--give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛ânâh
1) to answer, respond, testify, speak, shout
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to answer, respond to
1a2) to testify, respond as a witness
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to make answer
1b2) to be answered, receive answer
2) (Qal) to sing, utter tunefully
3) (Qal) to dwell
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1650, 1653
Usage:
This word is used 329 times:
Genesis 18:27: "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto"
Genesis 23:5: "And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying"
Genesis 23:10: "of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children"
Genesis 23:14: "And Ephron answered Abraham, saying"
Genesis 24:50: "Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD:"
Genesis 27:37: "And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all"
Genesis 27:39: "And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be"
Genesis 30:33: "So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire"
Genesis 31:14: "And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's"
Genesis 31:31: "And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said,"
Genesis 31:36: "and chided with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass?"
Genesis 31:43: "And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children"
Genesis 34:13: "And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully,"
Genesis 35:3: "there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with"
Genesis 40:18: "And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three"
Genesis 41:16: "And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer"
Genesis 41:16: "saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
Genesis 42:22: "And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not"
Genesis 45:3: "And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence."
Exodus 4:1: "And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken"
Exodus 15:21: "And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse"
Exodus 19:8: "And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD"
Exodus 19:19: "and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice."
Exodus 20:16: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Exodus 23:2: "follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline"
Exodus 24:3: "the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All"
Exodus 32:18: "And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry"
Exodus 32:18: "for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I"
Numbers 11:28: "the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses,"
Numbers 21:17: "song, Spring up, O well; sing"
Numbers 22:18: "And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak"
Numbers 23:12: " And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD"
Numbers 23:26: "But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not"
Numbers 32:31: "of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD"
Numbers 35:30: "but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die."
Deuteronomy 1:14: " And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do."
Deuteronomy 1:41: " Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight,"
Deuteronomy 5:20: "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Deuteronomy 19:16: "witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;"
Deuteronomy 19:18: "and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;"
Deuteronomy 20:11: "And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people"
Deuteronomy 21:7: " And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,"
Deuteronomy 25:9: "from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done"
Deuteronomy 26:5: " And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father,"
Deuteronomy 27:14: "And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud"
Deuteronomy 27:15: "it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen."
Deuteronomy 31:21: "are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not"
Joshua 1:16: " And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do,"
Joshua 7:20: "And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned"
Joshua 9:24: " And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants,"
