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אֲנָחָה

anacha · sighing, groaning

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H585 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

anacha (אֲנָחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sighing, groaning”.

A sigh, a groan: the moan of one who suffers or is weary.

How to say it

a·na·cha

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A deep sigh from someone who suffers or is distressed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • sighing ×6
  • groaning ×4
  • groans ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Job 3:24

    For before my bread my sighing comes, and my roarings pour out like water.

  • Job 23:2

    “Even today my complaint is rebellion; my hand is heavy on my sighing.

  • Psalms 6:6

    I am weary with my groaning; every night I flood my bed; with my tears I soak my couch.

  • Psalms 31:10

    For my life is spent in sorrow and my years in groaning; my strength has faltered because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

  • Psalms 38:9

    Adonai, before you is all my desire, and my groaning from you is not hidden.

  • Psalms 102:5

    Because of the sound of my groaning my bone clings to my flesh.

  • Isaiah 21:2

    A harsh vision has been told to me: the traitor betrays, and the devastator devastates. Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media! All its sighing I have brought to an end.

  • Isaiah 35:10

    And the ransomed of YHWH will return and come to Zion with shouting for joy, and eternal gladness will be on their heads; joy and gladness they will obtain, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

  • Isaiah 51:11

    And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and eternal gladness will be on their head; joy and gladness they will obtain; sorrow and sighing will flee.

  • Jeremiah 45:3

    You said, ‘Woe now to me, for YHWH has added affliction to my pain; I am weary with my sighing, and rest I have not found.’

  • Lamentations 1:22

    Let all their wickedness come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me for all my transgressions; for many are my groans, and my heart is faint.”