תְּנוּאָה
tenua · opposition
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8569 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tenua (תְּנוּאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “opposition”.
Turning away from someone and setting oneself against him.
How to say it
te·nu·a
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
- Turning against someone and away from him.
- Grounds sought to set oneself against someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- opposition ×1
- pretexts ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 14:34
According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall bear your iniquities, forty years, and you shall know my opposition.
- Job 33:10
Look, pretexts against me he finds; he counts me as his enemy.