מַעֲנֶה
maane · answer
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4617 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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maane (מַעֲנֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “answer”.
An answer, a reply.
How to say it
ma·a·ne
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
- What is said in answer to a question or an accusation.
- The purpose or end for which something exists.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- answer ×6
- end ×1
- response ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 32:3
And against his three companions his anger burned because they had not found an answer and yet had declared Job wicked.
- Job 32:5
And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger burned.
- Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns back wrath, but a hurtful word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in its time, how good!
- Proverbs 16:1
To a man belong the preparations of the heart, but from YHWH comes the answer of the tongue.
- Proverbs 16:4
YHWH has made everything for its end, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- Proverbs 29:19
By words a slave is not corrected, for he understands, but there is no response.
- Micah 3:7
And the seers will be ashamed, and the diviners will be embarrassed, and they will cover the mustache, all of them, for there is no answer from Elohim.”