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# אֲנָחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H585

**sighing** — used 11 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

sighing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/585/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנָחָה: n.f. sighing, groaning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/585/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sighing, groaning (poet. & late);—abs. ψ 31:11 +; sf. אַנְחָתִי Jb 3:24 +; אַנְחָתָהֿ Is 21:2 (sf. with Raphe). Pl. sf. אַנְחֹתַי La 1:22;—sighing, groaning, in distress, physical or mental Jb 3:24 (‖ שְׁאָגָה), 23:2 (‖ שִׂיחַ), ψ 6:7; 38:10 (‖ תַּאֲוָה), Is 21:2, La 1:22; ‖ יָגוֹן ψ 31:11; Is 35:10; 51:11 Je 45:3; קוֹל א׳ ψ 102:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: groaning (9); groaning(s) (1); my groaning (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 102:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.6/#tree)

מִקּ֥וֹל אַנְחָתִ֑י דָּבְקָ֥ה עַ֝צְמִ֗י לִבְשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* from the.sound my.groaning my it.clings bone\[s\] my to flesh my

*JPS 1917:* By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave to my flesh.

[Job 23:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.2/#tree)

גַּם־הַ֭יּוֹם מְרִ֣י שִׂחִ֑י יָ֝דִ֗י כָּבְדָ֥ה עַל־אַנְחָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* also this day the.rebellion my.complaint my hand my it.is.heavy on groaning my

*JPS 1917:* Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/585.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/585/): 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).