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# אָנַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H584

**sigh** — used 13 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

sigh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/584/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָנַח: vb. sigh, groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/584/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only sigh, groan, mostly poet. & late (Aramaic אֲנַה, ܐܶܢܰܚ Ethiopic cf. Assyrian \[anâḫu\], inḫu, sigh ZimBP 12, 30)—Pf. 3 fs. נֶאֶנְחָה La 1:8 Jo 1:18; 3 pl. נֶאֶנְחוּ Is 24:7; Impf. יֵאָנַח Pr 29:2 etc.; Imv. הֵאָנַ֑ח֯ Ez 21:11; Pt. נֶאְנָ֑ה Ez 21:12; נֶאֱנָחָה La 1:21 etc.;— sigh, in token of grief Is 24:7 Pr 29:2 La 1:4 (‖ נוּגוֹת) v 21 Ez 21:11(×2); of Jerus. La 1:8; mostly abs. but sq. עַל־ Ez 9:4 (‖ נֶאֱנָק); sq. עַל־ & אֶל־ 21:12. in physical distress La 1:11 (‖ בִּקֵּשׁ לֶחֶם); Ex 2:23 sq. מִן by reason of (‖ זָעַק) groan of cattle (בְּהֵמָה) Jo 1:18.

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: \[are\] groaning (2); it has groaned (2); you will groan (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.7/#tree)

אָבַ֥ל תִּיר֖וֹשׁ אֻמְלְלָה־גָ֑פֶן נֶאֶנְח֖וּ כָּל־שִׂמְחֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* it.has.dried.up new.wine it.has.languished \[the\].vine they.have.groaned all \[the.people\].joyful of.heart

*JPS 1917:* The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.

[Proverbs 29:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.2/#tree)

בִּרְב֣וֹת צַ֭דִּיקִים יִשְׂמַ֣ח הָעָ֑ם וּבִמְשֹׁ֥ל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע יֵאָ֥נַֽח עָֽם׃

*Word for word:* when increase righteous.\[people\] it.rejoices the people and when rules a.wicked.\[person\] it.groans a.people

*JPS 1917:* When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people sigh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/584.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/584/): 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).