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:
Esther 5:7: " Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request"
Esther 7:3: "Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight,"
Job 1:7: "Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said,"
Job 1:9: "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God"
Job 2:2: "From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD,"
Job 2:4: "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin,"
Job 3:2: "And Job spoke, and said,"
Job 4:1: "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,"
Job 5:1: "Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints"
Job 6:1: "But Job answered and said,"
Job 8:1: " Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"
Job 9:1: "Then Job answered and said,"
Job 9:3: "contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."
Job 9:14: "How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with"
Job 9:15: "though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge."
Job 9:16: "If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice."
Job 9:32: "he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment."
Job 11:1: " Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"
Job 11:2: "Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?"
Job 12:1: "And Job answered and said,"
Job 12:4: "of his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn."
Job 13:22: "Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer"
Job 14:15: "Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands."
Job 15:1: " Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"
Job 15:2: "Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?"
Job 15:6: "thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify"
Job 16:1: "Then Job answered and said,"
Job 16:3: "what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 16:8: "a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face."
Job 18:1: " Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"
Job 19:1: "Then Job answered and said,"
Job 19:7: "I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment."
Job 19:16: "I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth."
Job 20:1: " Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"
Job 20:3: "of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer."
Job 21:1: "But Job answered and said,"
Job 22:1: "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,"
Job 23:1: "Then Job answered and said,"
Job 23:5: "I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say"
Job 25:1: " Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"
Job 26:1: "But Job answered and said,"
Job 30:20: "I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest"
Job 31:35: "me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book."
Job 32:1: "three men ceased to answer Job, because"
Job 32:6: "the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye"
Job 32:12: "of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:"
Job 32:15: "They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking."
Job 32:16: "not, but stood still, and answered no more;)"
Job 32:17: "I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion."
Job 32:20: "that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer."
