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Strong's #6031: `anah (pronounced aw-naw')

a primitive root (possibly rather ident. with 6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows):--abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for 6030), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for 6030), speak (by mistake for 6030), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ânâh

1) (Qal) to be occupied, be busied with

2) to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to be put down, become low

2a2) to be depressed, be downcast

2a3) to be afflicted

2a4) to stoop

2b) (Niphal)

2b1) to humble oneself, bow down

2b2) to be afflicted, be humbled

2c) (Piel)

2c1) to humble, mishandle, afflict

2c2) to humble, be humiliated

2c3) to afflict

2d4) to humble, weaken oneself

2d) (Pual)

2d1) to be afflicted

2d2) to be humbled

2e) (Hiphil) to afflict

2f) (Hithpael)

2f1) to humble oneself

2f2) to be afflicted

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating]

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1651, 1652



Usage:

This word is used 83 times:

Psalms 88:7: "Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah."
Psalms 89:22: "upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict"
Psalms 90:15: "Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil."
Psalms 94:5: "They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage."
Psalms 102:23: " He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days."
Psalms 105:18: "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:"
Psalms 107:17: "because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted."
Psalms 116:10: "have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:"
Psalms 119:67: "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word."
Psalms 119:71: "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes."
Psalms 119:75: "thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted"
Psalms 119:107: " I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word."
Psalms 132:1: "David, and all his afflictions:"
Ecclesiastes 1:13: "given to the sons of man to be exercised"
Ecclesiastes 3:10: "hath given to the sons of men to be exercised"
Isaiah 27:2: "In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine."
Isaiah 31:4: "be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so"
Isaiah 53:4: "him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."
Isaiah 53:7: "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb"
Isaiah 58:3: "have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold,"
Isaiah 58:5: "that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,"
Isaiah 58:10: "thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity,"
Isaiah 60:14: "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down"
Isaiah 64:12: "these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?"
Lamentations 3:33: "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 5:11: " They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Ezekiel 22:10: "In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution."
Ezekiel 22:11: "his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter."
Daniel 10:12: "thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard,"
Nahum 1:12: "yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more."
Nahum 1:12: "shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more."
Zephaniah 3:19: "I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather"
Zechariah 10:2: "therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd."









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