anash · fine

What it means

anash (עָנַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fine”.

Punish by making someone pay an amount.

How to say it

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 lay a money penalty on someone for a damage or a wrong.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fine ×3
• are fined ×2
• fined ×2
• he shall surely be fined ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×4
• Amos×1

• Exodus 21:22

  When men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

• Deuteronomy 22:19

  and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought out a bad name against a virgin of Israel, and she shall be his wife; he may not send her away all his days.

• 2 Chronicles 36:3

  The king of Egypt removed him in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

• Proverbs 17:26

  Also, to fine the righteous is not good, or to strike nobles for their uprightness.

• Proverbs 21:11

  When the scoffer is fined, the simple becomes wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

• Proverbs 22:3

  The shrewd sees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are fined.

• Proverbs 27:12

  The shrewd sees evil and hides himself; the simple pass on and are fined.

• Amos 2:8

  And on garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of those who have been fined they drink in the house of their god.

And 1 more times.