oni · affliction

What it means

oni (עֳנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “affliction”.

Suffering, misery.

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. The state of one who suffers and has almost nothing; the pain of the oppressed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×5

• Genesis 16:11

  And the angel of YHWH said to her, “Look, you are pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, for YHWH has heard your affliction.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because YHWH has seen my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 31:42

  Had not the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For Elohim has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Exodus 3:7

  YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sufferings.

• Exodus 3:17

  and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

• Exodus 4:31

  And the people believed; and when they heard that YHWH had attended to the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshiped.

• Deuteronomy 16:3

  You shall not eat bread with leaven with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for in haste you came out of the land of Egypt, so that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

• Deuteronomy 26:7

  And we cried out to YHWH, the Elohim of our fathers, and YHWH heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  And she made a vow and said, “YHWH Tsevaot, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant and give your servant offspring of men, then I will give him to YHWH all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up on his head.”

• 2 Kings 14:26

  For YHWH saw the affliction of Israel, very bitter; there was none kept and none left, and there was no helper for Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 22:14

  Look, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of YHWH a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for it is in abundance. And timber and stones I have prepared; and to them you will add.

• Nehemiah 9:9

  And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their outcry you heard by the Sea of Reeds;

• Job 10:15

  If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift my head, sated with dishonor and seeing my affliction.

• Job 30:16

  And now within me my soul is poured out; days of affliction seize me.

• Job 30:27

  My inward parts boil and are not silent; days of affliction have come to meet me.

• Job 36:8

  And if they are bound in fetters, caught in cords of affliction,

• Job 36:15

  He delivers the poor in his affliction, and in oppression he uncovers their ear.

• Job 36:21

  Take care; do not turn to wickedness, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

• Psalms 9:13

  Show me favor, YHWH; see my affliction because of those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death,

• Psalms 25:18

  See my affliction and my suffering, and take away all my sins.

• Psalms 31:7

  I will be jubilant and be glad in your loyal love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distresses of my soul,

• Psalms 44:24

  Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

• Psalms 88:9

  My eye languishes because of affliction; I have called on you, YHWH, every day; I have spread out to you my palms.

• Psalms 107:10

  Those who sat in darkness and the shadow of death, prisoners of affliction and of iron,

• Psalms 107:41

  But he sets on high the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like a flock.

• Psalms 119:50

  This is my comfort in my affliction, that your saying has given me life.

• Psalms 119:92

  Unless your instruction had been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

• Psalms 119:153

  See my affliction and rescue me, for your instruction I have not forgotten.

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest he drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the cause of all the sons of affliction.

• Isaiah 48:10

  Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

• Lamentations 1:3

  Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations; she does not find a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of distresses.

• Lamentations 1:7

  Jerusalem remembers, in the days of her affliction and her wandering, all her precious things that were hers from the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and there was no one to help her; the adversaries saw her; they laughed at her ruin.

• Lamentations 1:9

  Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and she has come down astonishingly; she has no one to comfort her. “See, YHWH, my affliction, for the enemy has made himself great.”

• Lamentations 3:1

  I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

• Lamentations 3:19

  Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the poison.