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Strong's #6049: `anan (pronounced aw-nan')

a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from 6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic:--X bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ânan

1) (Piel) to make appear, produce, bring (clouds)

2) (Poel) to practise soothsaying, conjure

2a) to observe times, practice soothsaying or spiritism or magic or augury or witchcraft

2b) soothsayer, enchanter, sorceress, diviner, fortuneteller, barbarian, Meonenim (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1655, 1656



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Genesis 9:14: "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:"
Leviticus 19:26: "neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times."
Deuteronomy 18:10: "the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,"
Deuteronomy 18:14: "shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee,"
Judges 9:37: "and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim."
2 Kings 21:6: "his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards:"
2 Chronicles 33:6: "in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,"
Isaiah 2:6: "because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children"
Isaiah 57:3: "hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore."
Jeremiah 27:9: "nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which"
Micah 5:12: "out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:"









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