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# עֳנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6040

**affliction** — used 36 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

affliction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6040/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֳנִי: n.m. affliction, poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6040/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. affliction, poverty;—ע׳ Ex 3:7 +; עֹ֑נִי Dt 16:3 +, ע֑וֹנִי ψ 107:41, עוני 2 S 16:12 (Kt, but read עָנְיִי; \> Qr עֵינִי !); sf. עָנְיִי Gn 31:42 +, עָנְיֵךְ 16:11, etc.;— affliction, Jb 36:15, 21 ψ 44:25; 88:10; 107:41; 119:50, 92 La 1:3; 3:19; ארץ ע׳ Gn 41:52 (E); יְמֵי ע׳ Jb 30:16, 27 La 1:7; כּוּר ע׳ Is 48:10; חַבְלֵי ע׳ Jb 36:8; אֲסִירֵי ע׳ ψ 107:10; בְּנֵי ע׳ Pr 31:5; ראה ע׳ Gn 31:42 (E), Ex 3:7; 4:31 (J), Dt 26:7; 2 K 14:26; Ne 9:9; Jb 10:15 ψ 9:14; 25:18; 31:8; 119:153; La 1:9; 3:1, ins. also before עַמִּי 1 S 9:16b 𝔊 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS; ראה בע׳ Gn 29:32 (J), 1 S 1:11 2 S 16:12 (v. supr.); שׁמע ע׳ Gn 16:11 (J); העלה מע׳ Ex 3:17 (J); להם עני Dt 16:3. frustration, בְּעָנִיִי in spite of my frustration, 1 Ch 22:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 36 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: affliction (21); of affliction (7); the affliction (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.10/#tree)

יֹ֭שְׁבֵי חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָ֑וֶת אֲסִירֵ֖י עֳנִ֣י וּבַרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[those.who\].sat of.darkness and deep.darkness prisoners of.affliction and iron

*JPS 1917:* Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron —

[Lamentations 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.1/#tree)

אֲנִ֤י הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙ רָאָ֣ה עֳנִ֔י בְּשֵׁ֖בֶט עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* I \[am\].the man \[who\].he.has.seen affliction by the.rod his.fury his

*JPS 1917:* I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6040.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6040/): 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).