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# אֲנָקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H603

**crying** — 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

crying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/603/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנָקָה: n.f. crying, groaning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/603/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. crying, groaning, in distress (Aramaic ܐܶܢܰܩܬܳܐ ) Mal 2:13 (‖ דִּמְעָה, בְּכִי); cstr. אֶנְקַת ψ 12:6 (of poor, אֶבְיוֹן); 79:11 (of prisoner אָסִיר), so 102:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] groaning (2); groaning (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 102:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.21/#tree)

לִ֭שְׁמֹעַ אֶנְקַ֣ת אָסִ֑יר לְ֝פַתֵּ֗חַ בְּנֵ֣י תְמוּתָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to hear \[the\].groaning of.prisoner\[s\] to set.free \[the\].sons of.death

*JPS 1917:* To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

[Psalms 79:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.11/#tree)

תָּ֤ב֣וֹא לְפָנֶיךָ֮ אֶנְקַ֪ת אָ֫סִ֥יר כְּגֹ֥דֶל זְרוֹעֲךָ֑ ה֝וֹתֵ֗ר בְּנֵ֣י תְמוּתָֽה׃

*Word for word:* may.it.come before you \[the\].groaning of.\[the\].prisoner according to.the.greatness your.arm your leave.over \[the\].sons of.death

*JPS 1917:* Let the groaning of the prisoner come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power set free those that are appointed to death;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/603/): 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).