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# אָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H578

**mourn** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mourn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָנָה: vb. mourn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. mourn— Pf. 3 pl. וְאָנוּ cons. Is 3:26; 19:8 (‖ אָבַל q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they will lament (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.26/#tree)

וְאָנ֥וּ וְאָבְל֖וּ פְּתָחֶ֑יהָ וְנִקָּ֖תָה לָאָ֥רֶץ תֵּשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament and they.will.mourn gates its and it.will.be.emptied to the ground it.will.sit

*JPS 1917:* And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.

[Isaiah 19:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/#tree)

וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament the fishermen and they.will.mourn all \[those.who\].cast in the River a.fish.hook and \[those.who\].spread.out (of).a.fishing.net on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters they.will.languish

*JPS 1917:* The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/578.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/578/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).