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# אָנַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H597

**compel** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

compel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָנַס: vb. compel, constrain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. compel, constrain (late, often Mish. id., Aramaic אֲנַס, ܐܶܢܰܣ )— Pt. אֵין אֹנֵס viz., to drink Est 1:8 (‖ כִּרְצוֹן אִישׁ וָאִישׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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: \[one who\] compelled (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.8/#tree)

וְהַשְּׁתִיָּ֥ה כַדָּ֖ת אֵ֣ין אֹנֵ֑ס כִּי־כֵ֣ן ׀ יִסַּ֣ד הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ עַ֚ל כָּל־רַ֣ב בֵּית֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כִּרְצ֥וֹן אִישׁ־וָאִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the drinking \[was\].according to the.law there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].compelled (dm) thus he.had.appointed the king on every (the).chief his.house his to do according to.\[the\].pleasure of.man and man

*JPS 1917:* And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel; for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/597.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/597/): 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).