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:
2 Samuel 1:16: "thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain"
2 Samuel 4:9: "And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon"
2 Samuel 13:32: "of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose"
2 Samuel 14:18: "Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from"
2 Samuel 14:19: "thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord"
2 Samuel 15:21: "And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord"
2 Samuel 19:21: "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death"
2 Samuel 19:42: "And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because"
2 Samuel 19:43: "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten"
2 Samuel 20:20: "And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or"
2 Samuel 22:42: "to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not."
1 Kings 1:28: "Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's"
1 Kings 1:36: "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:"
1 Kings 1:43: "And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David"
1 Kings 2:22: "And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask"
1 Kings 2:30: "said Joab, and thus he answered"
1 Kings 3:27: "Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no"
1 Kings 12:7: "people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to"
1 Kings 12:13: "And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's"
1 Kings 13:6: "And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now"
1 Kings 18:21: "follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not"
1 Kings 18:24: "of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God."
1 Kings 18:24: "God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken."
1 Kings 18:26: "even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor"
1 Kings 18:26: "hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar"
1 Kings 18:29: "that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded."
1 Kings 18:37: " Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou"
1 Kings 18:37: "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou"
1 Kings 20:4: "And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I"
1 Kings 20:11: "And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself"
2 Kings 1:10: "And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I"
2 Kings 1:11: "captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God,"
2 Kings 1:12: "And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God,"
2 Kings 3:11: "by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said,"
2 Kings 4:29: "and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon"
2 Kings 7:2: "hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said,"
2 Kings 7:13: "And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five"
2 Kings 7:19: "And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD"
2 Kings 18:36: "But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment"
2 Kings 18:36: "the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not."
1 Chronicles 12:17: "And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably"
1 Chronicles 21:26: "and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon"
1 Chronicles 21:28: "saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed"
2 Chronicles 10:13: "And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel"
2 Chronicles 29:31: "Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near"
2 Chronicles 34:15: "And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book"
Ezra 3:11: " And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy"
Ezra 10:2: "of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We"
Ezra 10:12: "Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said,"
Nehemiah 8:6: "God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands:"
