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:
Joshua 22:21: "and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands"
Joshua 24:16: "And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD,"
Judges 5:29: "Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer"
Judges 7:14: "And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword"
Judges 8:8: "unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth"
Judges 8:8: "answered him as the men of Succoth had answered"
Judges 18:14: " Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,"
Judges 19:28: "her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man"
Judges 20:4: "And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah"
Ruth 1:21: "then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted"
Ruth 2:6: "that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel"
Ruth 2:11: "And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done"
1 Samuel 1:15: "And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit:"
1 Samuel 1:17: "Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant"
1 Samuel 4:17: "And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been"
1 Samuel 4:20: "for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard"
1 Samuel 7:9: "for Israel; and the LORD heard"
1 Samuel 8:18: "which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day."
1 Samuel 9:8: "And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here"
1 Samuel 9:12: " And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for"
1 Samuel 9:17: "Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spoke"
1 Samuel 9:19: "And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up"
1 Samuel 9:21: "And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest"
1 Samuel 10:12: "And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore"
1 Samuel 12:3: "Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose"
1 Samuel 14:12: "And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said,"
1 Samuel 14:28: " Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath,"
1 Samuel 14:37: "wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day."
1 Samuel 14:39: "he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered"
1 Samuel 16:18: " Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse"
1 Samuel 18:7: "And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David"
1 Samuel 20:10: "me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?"
1 Samuel 20:28: "And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of"
1 Samuel 20:32: "And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore"
1 Samuel 21:4: "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread"
1 Samuel 21:5: "And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women"
1 Samuel 21:11: "the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul"
1 Samuel 22:9: " Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul,"
1 Samuel 22:14: "Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all"
1 Samuel 23:4: "yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah;"
1 Samuel 25:10: "And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David?"
1 Samuel 26:6: " Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai"
1 Samuel 26:14: "the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered"
1 Samuel 26:14: "thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest"
1 Samuel 26:22: "And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men"
1 Samuel 28:6: "inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor"
1 Samuel 28:15: "make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more,"
1 Samuel 29:5: "this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew"
1 Samuel 29:9: "And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou"
1 Samuel 30:22: " Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that"
