Strong's Hebrew · H605

אָנַשׁ

ʼânash · aw-nash'

desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

Definition

to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 9 times in Scripture

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

Jeremiah 17:16

But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

Jeremiah 30:12

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Isaiah 17:11

though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

2 Samuel 12:15

After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

Job 34:6

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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