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# אָנַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H596

**complain** — 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

complain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/596/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָנַן: vb. complain, murmur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/596/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only complain, murmur (Mish. אנן, Aramaic אֲנַן, Arabic أَنَّ, Syriac ܐܰܢ; cf. Assyrian enênu, unnînu, sigh ZimBP 22)—Impf. יִתְאוֹנֵן La 3:39 (sq. עַל־ in ‖ member); Pt. מִתְאֹנְנִים בְּאָזְנֵי י׳ Nu 11:1 (sq. acc.; vid. Di).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[those who\] complain (1); will he complain (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.39/#tree)

מַה־יִּתְאוֹנֵן֙ אָדָ֣ם חָ֔י גֶּ֖בֶר עַל־חֲטָאָֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* why? will.he.complain a.person living a.man on sins his

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?

[Numbers 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים רַ֖ע בְּאָזְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ וַיִּ֣חַר אַפּ֔וֹ וַתִּבְעַר־בָּם֙ אֵ֣שׁ יְהוָ֔ה וַתֹּ֖אכַל בִּקְצֵ֥ה הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the people like \[those.who\].complain trouble in the.ears of.Yahweh and he.heard Yahweh and it.burned anger his and it.burned among them the.fire of.Yahweh and it.consumed in the.outskirt\[s\] of the.camp

*JPS 1917:* And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/596.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/596/): 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).