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# אָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H579

**be opportune** — used 4 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

be opportune [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/579/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָנָה²: vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/579/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be opportune, meet, encounter opportunely (Arabic أَنَى the right time is come, or it is come to the right time, or to maturity, or is opportune). Pf. אִנָּה Ex 21:13 cause (or allow) to meet in הָאֱלֹהִים א׳ לְיָדוֹ (obj. om.) i.e. without any purpose of the man to whom sf. ref. be allowed to meet, be sent, Impf. יְאֻנֶּה Pr 12:21 (c. ל); 3 fs. תְּאֻנֶּה ψ 91:10 (c. אֶל), subj. evil. cause oneself to meet, seek occasion (= seek a quarrel with) sq. ל 2 K 5:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: \[is\] seeking an opportunity (1); he allowed to happen (1); it happens (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.21/#tree)

לֹא־יְאֻנֶּ֣ה לַצַּדִּ֣יק כָּל־אָ֑וֶן וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים מָ֣לְאוּ רָֽע׃

*Word for word:* not it.happens to the righteous any trouble and wicked.\[people\] they.are.full distress

*JPS 1917:* There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil.

[Psalms 91:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.10/#tree)

לֹֽא־תְאֻנֶּ֣ה אֵלֶ֣יךָ רָעָ֑ה וְ֝נֶ֗גַע לֹא־יִקְרַ֥ב בְּאָהֳלֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.happen to you harm and plague not it.will.draw.near in tent your

*JPS 1917:* There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/579.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/579/): 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).