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אָנַשׁ

anash · be incurable, be sick

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H605 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

anash (אָנַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be incurable, be sick”.

To be desperately sick, beyond remedy; figuratively, to be in despair.

How to say it

a·nash

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 wound or pain that will not heal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • beyond remedy ×5
  • incurable ×3
  • he became very ill ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • 2 Samuel 12:15

    Then Nathan went to his house. And YHWH struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and he became very ill.

  • Job 34:6

    Concerning my right, should I lie? Incurable is my arrow, without transgression.’

  • Isaiah 17:11

    On the day of your planting you make it grow, and in the morning your seed you make blossom; the harvest will flee in the day of sickness and of incurable pain.

  • Jeremiah 15:18

    Why has my pain been perpetual, and my wound beyond remedy, refusing to be healed? Will you really be to me like a deceptive brook, waters that are not faithful?

  • Jeremiah 17:9

    Deceitful is the heart above all things, and beyond remedy it is; who can know it?

  • Jeremiah 17:16

    But I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you, and the day beyond remedy I have not desired; you know it; what comes out of my lips has been before your face.

  • Jeremiah 30:12

    For thus says YHWH: Beyond remedy is your breaking, incurable your wound.

  • Jeremiah 30:15

    Why do you cry out over your breaking? Beyond remedy is your pain. Because of the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins have become strong, I have done these things to you.

  • Micah 1:9

    For incurable are her wounds, for it has come as far as Judah; it has reached as far as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem.