תָּנָה
tana · hire, pay
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8566 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tana (תָּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hire, pay”.
To pay or hire with gifts; said of paying lovers, of a people buying allies as one pays for a prostitute.
How to say it
ta·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
- To pay to win lovers or allies.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- has hired ×1
- they hire ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Hosea 8:10
Even though they hire among the nations, now I will gather them, and they will begin to diminish a little from the burden of the king of princes.