Keraia
Lexicon

עָנָה

a.nahbe occupiedHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb82 occurrences21 books78 verses

Definition

a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Traditional renderings: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030), speak (by mistake for H6030), submit self, weaken, × in any wise.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָנָה:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

82 total
  1. Genesis 15:13וְעִנּ֣וּ · and mistreated
    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
  2. Genesis 16:6וַתְּעַנֶּ֣הָ · treated
    “Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
  3. Genesis 16:9וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י · and submit
    So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
  4. Genesis 31:50תְּעַנֶּ֣ה · you mistreat
    If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
  5. Genesis 34:2וַיְעַנֶּֽהָ׃ · by force
    When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
  6. Exodus 1:11עַנֹּת֖וֹ · oppress them
    So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
  7. Exodus 1:12יְעַנּ֣וּ · But the more they were oppressed
    But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
  8. Exodus 10:3לֵעָנֹ֖ת · to humble yourself
    So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
  9. Exodus 22:22תְעַנּֽוּן׃ · mistreat
    You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
  10. Exodus 22:23עַנֵּ֥ה · you do mistreat them; תְעַנֶּ֖ה
    If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
  11. Leviticus 16:29תְּעַנּ֣וּ · you shall humble
    This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
  12. Leviticus 16:31וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם · that you may humble
    It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
  13. Leviticus 23:27וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם · and humble
    “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.
  14. Leviticus 23:29תְעֻנֶּ֔ה · humble himself
    If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
  15. Leviticus 23:32וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם · and you shall humble
    It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
  16. Numbers 24:24וְעִנּ֥וּ · they will subdue; וְעִנּוּ־
    Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
  17. Numbers 29:7וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם · and you shall humble
    On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
  18. Numbers 30:13לְעַנֹּ֣ת · to deny
    Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
  19. Deuteronomy 8:2עַנֹּֽתְךָ֜ · He might humble you
    Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  20. Deuteronomy 8:3וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮ · He humbled you
    He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
  21. Deuteronomy 8:16עַנֹּֽתְךָ֗ · humble you
    He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
  22. Deuteronomy 21:14עִנִּיתָֽהּ׃ס · you have dishonored her
    And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
  23. Deuteronomy 22:24עִנָּ֖ה · he has violated
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  24. Deuteronomy 22:29עִנָּ֔הּ · he has violated her
    …then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  25. Deuteronomy 26:6וַיְעַנּ֑וּנוּ · and afflicted us
    But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.
  26. Judges 16:5לְעַנֹּת֑וֹ · and subdue him
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  27. Judges 16:6לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃ · and subdued
    So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
  28. Judges 16:19לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹ · to subdue him
    And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
  29. Judges 19:24וְעַנּ֣וּ · and you can use
    Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
  30. Judges 20:5עִנּ֖וּ · but they abused
    And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
  31. 2 Samuel 7:10לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹ · oppress them
    And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
  32. 2 Samuel 13:12תְּעַנֵּ֔נִי · violate me
    “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
  33. 2 Samuel 13:14וַיְעַנֶּ֔הָ · he violated her
    But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.
  34. 2 Samuel 13:22עִנָּ֔ה · violating
    And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.
  35. 2 Samuel 13:32עַנֹּת֔וֹ · Amnon violated
    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
  36. 1 Kings 2:26הִתְעַנִּ֔יתָ · and you suffered; הִתְעַנָּ֖ה · suffered
    Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
  37. 1 Kings 8:35תַעֲנֵֽם׃ · You have afflicted them
    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  38. 1 Kings 11:39וַֽאעַנֶּ֛ה · I will humble
    Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
  39. 2 Kings 17:20וַיְעַנֵּ֔ם · He afflicted them
    So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
  40. 2 Chronicles 6:26תַעֲנֵֽם׃ · You have afflicted them
    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  41. Ezra 8:21לְהִתְעַנּ֖וֹת · so that we might humble
    And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
  42. Job 30:11וַיְעַנֵּ֑נִי · and afflicted me
    Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
  43. Job 37:23יְעַנֶּֽה׃ · oppress
    The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
  44. Psalm 35:13עִנֵּ֣יתִי · I humbled
    Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
  45. Psalm 55:19וְֽיַעֲנֵם֮ · and humiliate them
    God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
  46. Psalm 88:7עִנִּ֥יתָ · have submerged [me]
    Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
  47. Psalm 89:22יְעַנֶּֽנּוּ׃ · will oppress him
    No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.