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:
Hosea 5:5: "And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;"
Hosea 7:10: "And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD"
Hosea 14:8: "have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree."
Joel 2:19: "Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn,"
Amos 7:14: " Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet,"
Jonah 2:2: "by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell"
Micah 3:4: "unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that"
Micah 6:3: "have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify"
Micah 6:5: "Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;"
Habakkuk 2:2: "And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,"
Habakkuk 2:11: "of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer"
Haggai 2:12: "or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No."
Haggai 2:13: "of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean."
Haggai 2:14: " Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this"
Zechariah 1:10: "that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD"
Zechariah 1:11: " And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said,"
Zechariah 1:12: "Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long"
Zechariah 1:13: "And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable"
Zechariah 3:4: " And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy"
Zechariah 4:4: " So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these,"
Zechariah 4:5: "Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what"
Zechariah 4:6: " Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto"
Zechariah 4:11: " Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon"
Zechariah 4:12: " And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches"
Zechariah 6:4: " Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?"
Zechariah 6:5: "And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens,"
Zechariah 10:6: "I am the LORD their God, and will hear"
Zechariah 13:9: "shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they"
Malachi 2:12: "that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth"
