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עָנָה

ana · afflict

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6031 · appears 83 times in the Bible

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What it means

ana (עָנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “afflict”.

Oppress, make suffer; in a reflexive form, humble oneself, submit.

How to say it

a·na

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. To make suffer, oppress.
  2. To humble, or humble oneself; to fast.
  3. To be occupied with something, the mind set on a task.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To afflict, oppress, make suffer; in a reflexive form, to humble oneself or submit. To “afflict the soul” is to fast. BDB: to depress; from there to afflict, humble, subdue. It is written the same as עָנָה, “answer” (H6030), but is another word. Of the same root is עָנִי, “poor, afflicted” (H6041).

How we translate it

“Afflict” 26 times, “afflicted” 25, “you shall afflict” 5; “humble”, “humiliate” and “humiliated her” in the sexual sense, with a note and without softening (“and humbled her”, Genesis 34:2). עִנָּה נֶפֶשׁ is “afflict the soul”, with a note that it includes fasting (Leviticus 16:29).

How it is translated

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

  • afflict ×26
  • afflicted ×25
  • you shall afflict ×5
  • he humiliated ×3
  • be occupied ×2
  • humble ×2
  • humble yourself ×2
  • humiliate ×2
  • humiliated her ×2
  • they have humiliated ×2
  • others ×12

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Where it appears

  • Genesis 15:13

    Then he said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be resident aliens in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

  • Genesis 16:6

    But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.

  • Genesis 16:9

    The angel of YHWH said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.”

  • Genesis 31:50

    If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, though no one is with us, see, Elohim is witness between me and you.”

  • Genesis 34:2

    Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the chief of the land, saw her, and he took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

  • Exodus 1:11

    So they set over them chiefs of forced labor to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses.

  • Exodus 1:12

    But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, and the Egyptians came to dread the sons of Israel.

  • Exodus 10:3

    So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exodus 22:22

    You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

  • Exodus 22:23

    If you do afflict him —for if he does cry out to me, I will surely hear his cry—

  • Leviticus 16:29

    And this shall be for you a statute forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work the native or the resident alien who resides among you.

  • Leviticus 16:31

    It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

  • Leviticus 23:27

    “But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls and present a fire offering to YHWH.

  • Leviticus 23:29

    For any person who is not afflicted on this very day shall be cut off from their people.

  • Leviticus 23:32

    It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall cease in your Sabbath.”

  • Numbers 24:24

    And ships shall come from the hand of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur and shall afflict Eber; and he also shall come to destruction.”

  • Numbers 29:7

    And on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.

  • Numbers 30:13

    Every vow and every oath of obligation to afflict the soul, her husband may confirm it, and her husband may annul it.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    Remember all the way that YHWH your Elohim has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

  • Deuteronomy 8:3

    He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does a human being live, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of YHWH does a human being live.

  • Deuteronomy 8:16

    who fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and in order to test you, to do you good in the end;

  • Deuteronomy 21:14

    And if you are not pleased with her, you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for silver; you shall not treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Deuteronomy 22:24

    then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

  • Deuteronomy 22:29

    then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he humiliated her; he may not send her away all his days.

  • Deuteronomy 26:6

    And the Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us and laid on us hard bondage.

  • Judges 16:5

    And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see in what his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, so that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give you, each one, eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

  • Judges 16:6

    So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, please, in what your great strength lies, and with what you could be bound to afflict you.”

  • Judges 16:19

    She made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man and she shaved the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.

  • Judges 19:24

    Look, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine: let me bring out them and humiliate them and do to them what is good in your eyes; but to this man do not do the deed of this infamy.”

  • Judges 20:5

    And the lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house around me at night. Me they intended to kill, and my concubine they humiliated, and she died.

  • 2 Samuel 7:10

    And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again afflict them as at the beginning,

  • 2 Samuel 13:12

    She said to him, “No, my brother, do not humiliate me, for it is not done like this in Israel. Do not do this outrage.

  • 2 Samuel 13:14

    But he was not willing to listen to her voice; he was stronger than she and humiliated her and lay with her.

  • 2 Samuel 13:22

    Absalom did not speak with Amnon anything, bad or good, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated Tamar his sister.

  • 2 Samuel 13:32

    Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered and said, “Let not my lord say that they have put to death all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead; for by the mouth of Absalom it had been settled from the day he humiliated Tamar his sister.

  • 2 Samuel 22:36

    You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your answering makes me great.

  • 1 Kings 2:26

    And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your fields, for you deserve death; but on this day I will not put you to death, because you carried the ark of Adonai YHWH before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all that my father was afflicted.”

  • 1 Kings 8:35

    When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and give thanks to your name and turn back from their sin because you afflict them,

  • 1 Kings 11:39

    And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not all the days.’”

  • 2 Kings 17:20

    YHWH despised all the offspring of Israel, and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them from before his face.

And 43 more times.