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# עִנְיָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6045

**occupation** — used 8 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

occupation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6045/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִנְיָן: n.m. occupation, task [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6045/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 1:13 occupation, task, only Ec (Aramaic loan-word LagBN 205; common in NH);—ע׳ abs. Ec 2:26; 3:10; 5:2; 8:16; sf. כַּעַס עִנְיָנוֹ 2:23 his task is (sheer) vexation; עִנְיָן רָע 1:13 an evil (worthless) task, so 4:8 (Mass. עִנְיַן as if cstr., v. Baer1, 13 but Köii. 1, 99), and, in weakened sense, 5:13 a bad business, bad affair.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: business (3); a business (2); \[is\] a business (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.2/#tree)

כִּ֛י בָּ֥א הַחֲל֖וֹם בְּרֹ֣ב עִנְיָ֑ן וְק֥וֹל כְּסִ֖יל בְּרֹ֥ב דְּבָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.comes the dream with abundance of.business and.\[the\] voice a.fool with a.multitude of.words

*JPS 1917:* For a dream cometh through a multitude of business; and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

[Ecclesiastes 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.10/#tree)

רָאִ֣יתִי אֶת־הָֽעִנְיָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֧ן אֱלֹהִ֛ים לִבְנֵ֥י הָאָדָ֖ם לַעֲנ֥וֹת בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* I.have.seen (et) the business which he.has.given God to the.children of.(the) humankind to be.busy with it

*JPS 1917:* I have seen the task which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6045.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6045/): 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).