Strong's Hebrew · H6031

H6031 ʻânâh

עָנָה

aw-naw'

be occupied

ʻânâh appears 82 times in Scripture, including Genesis 15:13 and Exodus 1:11. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

In the King James Version

abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), speak (by mistake for H6030 (עָנָה)), submit self, weaken, × in any wise.

Derivation

a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 (עָנָה) through the idea of looking down or browbeating);

Appears 82 times in Scripture

Leviticus 23:27

““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.”

Leviticus 23:29

“If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.”

Exodus 1:11

“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.”

Genesis 15:13

“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.”

Exodus 1:12

“But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.”

Genesis 16:9

“So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.””

Exodus 10:3

“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.”

Genesis 31:50

“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.””

Genesis 16:6

““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.”

Genesis 34:2

“When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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